As 2011 winds to a close and 2012 begins, we do a little bit of Fast Company drum-beating. We predict a lot of stuff around here. Sometimes we're wrong some. But we also nailed a few things this year. Back in January we pondered who might replace Steve Jobs at Apple...READ»
With Steve Jobs' death at 56, the online and offline media worlds have exploded with professional and personal obituaries, commentaries and tributes. Here's a sample of some of them that may have appealed--in some small way--to the ...READ»
We're betting that the headline above will turn most people away and that's a crying shame, because today's infographic is stunning, beautiful, and incredibly moving. Only once in a blue moon do web-based infographics rise to this ...READ»
Funeral homes are too damned depressing. All that studied gravity: the mahogany, the bizarre Greek columns, the freakish dearth of windows -- it’s enough to make us think we're the ones in a coffin.
It doesn’t have to be that ...READ»
The publishing industry’s up to its bifocals in how-to manuals on life’s various milestones: birth, college, marriage. But the biggest milestone of all barely rates a paperback in the discount bin. We speak, of course, of ...READ»
Anyone who's got to that stage in life where they contemplate death more than life (it's a midlife thing, I'm told) and who worries about their legacy to the world might be interested in record label boss Jason Leach's idea, And ...READ»
From the Dutch design firm Studio Wieki Somers come household objects made out of human
ashes. Yes, human ashes. As in John Steegman (b. 1939, d. 1985), who is now a
vacuum cleaner:Pietertje Vos (b. 1942, d. 2007), now a scale:And ...READ»
He’s one of the best-known faces on Al Gore’s TV network Current TV. Venezuelan
born media persona Jason Silva is some newfangled hybrid of Journalist, Anchorman,Documentary Filmmaker, and Content Curator.
Silva says he ...READ»
Book of Odds is devoted to all manner of odds. Chance a kid grows up to be a fashion model? 1 in 81,440. That you'll be eaten by a shark? 1 in 251,800,000.READ»
In the weeks following Michael Jackson's death, more than 150,000 people commented on his Facebook wall and MySpace page. Some were straightforward ("I like the song beat it"); some were heartfelt ("Michael Jackson, you are the ...READ»
Sun Danyong was a Foxconn China employee until last Thursday, when, after apparently being responsible for the loss of an Apple prototype device, he committed suicide. Is Apple's ferocious product secrecy to blame for his death?READ»
Most of us don't think much about the impact of our future death on the environment. But Nina and Ron Coler, of Ashfield, Massachusetts (a few miles from me) have extended their commitment to sustainability into their deaths.
They've ...READ»
