Storytellers know how to find characters to work with. They look for people who will stretch their imaginative capacities. If, on the other hand, you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants. Storytellers respect history. That's how they maintain their sanity - and locate themselves in time and space.
History repeats itself, so storytellers see their future embedded in tales of the past.
Adams, for example, studies film to predict parallel developments in computer technology. The Web, says Adams, is at a similar point in its development. Fast Company LLC Fast Company retains the copyright in all of the material on these Web pages as a collective work under copyright laws. You may not copy, republish, redistribute or exploit in any manner any material from these pages without the express written consent of Fast Company. You may, however, download copyrighted material for your individual and non-commercial use only.