March 2006

Fast 50 2006

Inside, 50 portraits from the future: people in business, technology, government, the arts, and beyond who are writing the history of the next 10 years. No, they aren't all heroes. Some are simply seizing an opportunity. But they're all smart, and they all tell you a lot about where we're heading.
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Demographics: The Population Hourglass

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.
Resources: The Revolution Begins
The Body: Bulletproof
Technology: Boom, Bust, and Beyond
Security: Power To The People
Full Text: The Future's So Bright...

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.

The Corporate Shrink

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.
Creating a Gem of a Career

Monster.com? History. Networks? Everywhere. Five trends that will shape your career in the coming decade.
Fearless Predictions (And What to Do About Them)

A Brief History of Our Time

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.
Jetsons Moments: Fast Forward

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.
Good Calls and Bad Calls from Our First 10 Years

Here are the predictions we got right and others that turned out to be very wrong.
Six Jobs That Won't Exist In 2016

From auto mechanics to bloggers.
The FC Wish List: Science Edition

Advances we hope to see by 2016.
The FC Wish List: Tech Edition

Stuff we hope to see by 2016.
The Comeback Trail

A few failed ideas from the past 10 years that we're welcoming home.

Fast Talk: What's the Biggest Change Facing Business In the Next 10 Years?

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.

Editor's Letter

Like many of our readers, I can remember exactly when and where I first set eyes on a copy of Fast Company.