See 34 ingenious, inspirational winners of the 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards

It's a big day: Today we're announcing the winners of Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards. Our winners run from a machine that turns old  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

Presented by It’s a big day: Today we’re announcing the winners of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards. Our winners run from a machine that turns old sweaters into new clothes to a company giving people in jail a free way to video call their loved ones, to a library of banned journalism hidden in Minecraft. There are 34 winners total, along with long lists of exceptional finalists and honorable mentions in each category. Together, they are a remarkable display of the ingenuity and caring that emerged from the pandemic. If these are the kind of ideas around which we can coalesce as we rebuild, the future should be even better and brighter than what came before this last, lost year. —Morgan Clendaniel   world changing ideas See 34 ingenious, inspirational winners of the 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards These projects helped fight the pandemic—and will help rebuild society beyond where we left it.   world changing ideas This machine monitors mosquitoes to find—and stop—pandemics before they start Microsoft’s Premonition platform—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—tracks, captures, and analyzes mosquitoes, to give health officials a sense of what pathogens are circulating in the area.   world changing ideas How Regeneron developed its COVID-19-fighting antibody cocktail The biotech company’s treatment regimen—a winner of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—has treated tens of thousands of patients and will be vital as the pandemic continues around the world.

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