World Changing Ideas
BIG PROBLEMS NEED CREATIVE SOLUTIONS, AND THESE PROJECTS DELIVER. SOME ARE TACKLING ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY, WHILE OTHERS ARE USING NEW TECH TO SOLVE OLD PROBLEMS (AND VICE VERSA!). ALL ARE AMBITIOUS ENOUGH TO GET EXCITED ABOUT.
AI 20: Rising Stars expanding AI´s Research
These 20 human beings are inventing new ways to harness the ever-accelerating cognitive power of agentic AI.
01 GOOGLE
FOR SEEING INTO OUR AI-ASSISTED FUTURE
10 PROXIMITY MEDIA
FOR GENERATING BLOCKBUSTER REVENUES FROM INDIE STORYLINES
OCTOPUS FARM
THEY'RE CLEVER, THEY'RE OTHERWORLDLY, AND IF A GROWING BAND OF COMPANIES AND SCIENTISTS HAVE THEIR WAY, THEY'RE GOING TO BE RAISED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. INSIDE THE BIRTH OF A NEW AND CONTROVERSIAL INDUSTRY.
WHO'LL START THE RAIN?
RAINMAKER FOUNDER AND CEO AUGUSTUS DORICKO WANTS TO HELP DROUGHT-PRONE AREAS BY USING DRONES TO NUDGE CLOUDS INTO PRODUCING SNOW AND RAIN. HE'S GENERATING A STORM OF CONTROVERSY IN THE PROCESS.
VENTI EXPECTATIONS
STARBUCKS CEO BRIAN NICCOL BUILT A REPUTATION FOR QUICKLY REVIVING FAST-FOOD EMPIRES. HE'S TRYING TO DO THE SAME FOR THE COFFEE GIANT BY RECONNECTING THE BRAND WITH ITS ORIGINAL SOUL. BUT THIS TIME, CHANGE IS A SLOWER BREW.
PERSON -TO- PERSON
Fast Company's invitation-only collective of mission-driven leaders explores how to reassert a human-centric approach, even amid AI's growing role in business.
World Changing Ideas
BIG PROBLEMS NEED CREATIVE SOLUTIONS, AND THESE PROJECTS DELIVER. SOME ARE TACKLING ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY, WHILE OTHERS ARE USING NEW TECH TO SOLVE OLD PROBLEMS (AND VICE VERSA!). ALL ARE AMBITIOUS ENOUGH TO GET EXCITED ABOUT.
AI 20: Rising Stars expanding AI´s Research
These 20 human beings are inventing new ways to harness the ever-accelerating cognitive power of agentic AI.
01 GOOGLE
FOR SEEING INTO OUR AI-ASSISTED FUTURE
10 PROXIMITY MEDIA
FOR GENERATING BLOCKBUSTER REVENUES FROM INDIE STORYLINES
OCTOPUS FARM
THEY'RE CLEVER, THEY'RE OTHERWORLDLY, AND IF A GROWING BAND OF COMPANIES AND SCIENTISTS HAVE THEIR WAY, THEY'RE GOING TO BE RAISED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. INSIDE THE BIRTH OF A NEW AND CONTROVERSIAL INDUSTRY.
WHO'LL START THE RAIN?
RAINMAKER FOUNDER AND CEO AUGUSTUS DORICKO WANTS TO HELP DROUGHT-PRONE AREAS BY USING DRONES TO NUDGE CLOUDS INTO PRODUCING SNOW AND RAIN. HE'S GENERATING A STORM OF CONTROVERSY IN THE PROCESS.
VENTI EXPECTATIONS
STARBUCKS CEO BRIAN NICCOL BUILT A REPUTATION FOR QUICKLY REVIVING FAST-FOOD EMPIRES. HE'S TRYING TO DO THE SAME FOR THE COFFEE GIANT BY RECONNECTING THE BRAND WITH ITS ORIGINAL SOUL. BUT THIS TIME, CHANGE IS A SLOWER BREW.
PERSON -TO- PERSON
Fast Company's invitation-only collective of mission-driven leaders explores how to reassert a human-centric approach, even amid AI's growing role in business.