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 Fast Company. I buy it and read it from cover to cover and it explains the new world in a way that makes sense,

It’s 2016 and Fast Company has come of age. So have I in a somewhat different way. As a geeky grandmother, 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

Thanks, Fast Company — often I met these things for the first time through you! What will we learn about in the next 20 years?

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