Innovation Nation


Companies from coast to coast are developing cutting-edge technologies that will change how we work, play and survive. Canada, meet your future


by Steve Brearton T


ECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IS ACCELERATING AT A DIZZYING PACE. The fi rst commercially successful, mass-market personal computer arrived in 1977. Just 15 years later a PC could connect with other computers globally via the Internet, and today a networked, hand-held device has eliminated the need for dozens of traditional physical products ranging from cameras and stereos to credit cards and keys.


It’s been said that the fi rst two decades of the 20th century brought as much technological progress as


the entire previous century. Now, prognosticators suggest denizens of our century will experience as much technological disruption as humans of the previous 20,000 years combined. Unknown individuals and companies working with obscure technologies will lead the charge. And


some of those people and inventions will be from Canada. In the following pages, we introduce you to Canadian fi rms that are producing processes and products that promise to forever alter the way we grow, eat, work, connect, shop and preserve our planet. Meet the companies building our future today.


MADE IN CANADA, EH?


We have a long history of giving birth to revolutionary products and processes — including the following items Canadian individuals and fi rms have helped develop


1853 Steam fog horn


1874 Lightbulb 34 | CPA MAGAZINE | JUNE/JULY 2015


1876 Telephone


1879 Standard time


1892


Electric oven 1894


Caulking gun


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