A decade ago, this magazine began chronicling a new era in business. To celebrate our anniversary, we're looking out to the next one. Meet the people, technology, ideas, and trends that will shape how we work and live over the 10 years ahead.
Your future is older, browner, and more feminine than you might have realized. That will make for some major lifestyle changes ("Welcome home, Mom!") and lots of huge opportunities for business.
Businesses large and small are finally seeing the green light. It isn't just conscience--or all those nice young people in Guatemalan sweaters--that's doing the trick. It's the sight of all that money.
If you want to live forever, change your skin color, or just firm up those abs from the comfort of your own couch, you might be in luck: Gene therapy is on its way--and it's coming fast.
Battered and bankrupt alike, take heart: The dotcom crash did more than cull the investor herd; it set in motion the next great wave of innovation. But now things will only move faster--and competition will only get hotter.
The myth of American omnipotence fell in the Iraqi desert, laid low by an agile new enemy. We have a chance now to rethink the systems that protected us in the past. It's one we cannot miss.
In Fast Company's first decade, we introduced readers to a lot of amazingly smart people. To launch our second, we asked 10 of our favorite brains what's next--and how to get ready for it.
The former chief scientist at Xerox goes up against a California high-school senior on whether all this cool technology is bringing people together or keeping them apart.
From issue one, Fast Company grasped the power of great design-- and we built that into the look of the magazine itself. So go ahead: Judge our books by their covers.
Offices in closets and homemade lasagna are just some of the highlights from Fast Company's formative years, as told by founding editors Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, and others who were there at the beginning.
Here's what they've thought of next: waterless washing machines, robotic skin, and wireless broadband from on high. In the pages that follow, we present a portfolio of emerging technologies that could change the world in the next decade--or at least get our clothes clean.
Our Corporate Shrink offers some advice on how to cope with a world of fast and furious change. Bottom line: You better have a taste for ambiguity and uncertainty.
Slideshow: What's Next for Business
