It’s 1995. I’m in the airport of Canada’s Capital, Ottawa, waiting to take a short flight back to Toronto and I’m filling in time browsing the magazines in the airport shop. Something new catches my eye — a magazine cover that says “The New Rules of Business — Work is Personal -Computing is Social — Knowledge is Power — Break the Rules”. It’s called . I buy it and read it from cover to cover and it explains the new world in a way that makes sense, Fast Company It’s 2016 and Fast Company has come of age. So have I in a somewhat different way. As a , I now read Fast Company’s anniversary issue on an Ipad using a Zenio app. And I realize that I have lived through the same wild ride that the magazine has. Everyone over 21 should read the article. But with apologies to_Fast Company_ I’m just going to list some of the things it names for the time challenged — and let you ponder what we’ve come across in the last twenty years — and often left behind geeky grandmother Netscape Palm Pilot Travelocity Fox News Craigslist WiFi Prius 3G HDTV PayPal TiVo Napster Amazon Zipcar GPS MapQuest Skype Wikipedia TED Whole Foods Creative Class Human Genome My Space Facebook YouTube Al Jazeera Iphone Chrome Twitter Instagram Etsy Kickstarter Warby Parker Netflix Square Uber Airbnb Apple Watch Thanks, — often I met these things for the first time through you! What will we learn about in the next 20 years? Fast Company SHARE THIS:
