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FINDING THE SPARK
IN THE GRASP OF BIG TECH • FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, AND OTHER MASTERS OF THE SURVEILLANCE ECONOMY HAVE BRED A VIRULENT MUTATION OF CAPITALISM.
TURNING A THREAT INTO THREAD • Adidas Terrex Parley footwear turns ocean plastics into sneaker material.
MY OPERATING SYSTEM INSTAGRAM’S HEAD OF DESIGN, IAN SPALTER • He’s the man that keeps you scrolling through your Instagram feed. The company’s head of design takes our career questionnaire.
The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies
01.–02. For pioneering transactional super apps
03 For giving every fan a courtside seat
04 For diving into the stream
05. For fixing retail one data point at a time
How Stitch Fix puts data to work • THREE TOOLS THE COMPANY CREATED OUT OF ITS OBSESSIVE INTEREST IN THE MINUTIAE OF STYLE
06. For flaunting its roots
07. For keeping it fresh
Top 10 Lists
08. For providing a more elegant way to pay
09. For rising to the top
10. For live-streaming the revolution
YOU CAN WATCH THAT ON TWITCH
11. For incubating cult brands in-house
12. For selling out
13. For fending off malware and online surveillance
14. For shaping fitness classes into must-see TV
15. For bringing AI to market
16. For helping us believe our eyes
17. For pushing its processors
18. For letting businesses build like gamers
19. For picking up the pace
20. For empowering financial apps
For finding harmony amid disruption
Top 10.
22. For encouraging admins to think like developers
23. For knowing how to chill
24. For coding magic
25. For making millennials oenophiles
26. For proposing a better way to do e-commerce
27. For turning carbon emissions into power
28. For dancing to India’s rhythm
For securing your online identity
30.–32. For taking medicine to new frontiers
Top 10.
33. For mobilizing against toxins
34. For creating a hotel chain that operates like Airbnb
35. For cultivating resilient plants
36. For direct-depositing trust
37. For feeding the hypebeasts
38. For rebuilding the library
39. For scaling higher education for africa’s rising generation
40. For scoring in the clutch
41. For designing a less wasteful fashion industry
Top 10.
42. For simplifying fertility tests
43. For bringing space down to earth
44. For forging an indie film community
45. For rewarding talented educators
46. For making the ordinary extraordinary
47. For educating refugee children
48. For feathering our nest eggs
49. For quarantining Facebook
50. For cooking up delicious social spaces
Top 10.
HOW TO MANAGE MORRIES • All those myths about people born on Tuesday? Yeah, they’re pretty much true. So here’s how to handle this growing population.