Hot Topics | Ramona Pringle on The Year Ahead in Digital When it comes to social media, we’ve entered the awkward “adolescent” years. In the early days, or the “infancy” of social media, everything new was exciting: We could connect easily with old friends, share ideas, work remotely. But the heavyweights like Youtube and Facebook have been around for over a decade now, and as they’ve permeated every aspect of how we meet, socialize and work, new complications have arisen. Despite having access to more information than ever, as we get more of our news from the people we follow online, are we becoming trapped inside echo chambers? Are all of these digital tools wreaking havoc on our attention spans? In an age when everything is documented and shared online, what happens when you actually want to forget something? Hot Topics Advice Guest Blog Tech/Future
Hot Topics | Natalie Panek on The Future & Trends in the Space World The desire to know what is out there excites me just as much today as it did when I was young. That’s because there are some really exciting projects unfolding in the space world right now. In the last year or so alone Rosetta has landed on an asteroid and New Horizons is sending back the highest resolution images of Pluto ever seen. Hot Topics Upcoming Events Guest Blog Tech/Future
Hot Topics | Jesse Hirsh on the Year Ahead in Technology In 2016, those who will prosper and be happy, will be those who get a little help from their friends! Who you know will determine what you know! Social media has already conquered the world, forming the basis of a new kind of social infrastructure that powers everything from news, collaboration, knowledge discovery, recommendation, who we trust, and who we listen to. Technology is no longer driven by information alone, but is now lead by social context. Hot Topics Guest Blog Tech/Future
Flying by Pluto: A Celebration of Science | Guest Blog by Natalie Panek It’s an exciting day in the history of space travel. Today, after more than 9 years flying through the far reaches of our galaxy, the New Horizon’s spacecraft will reach the furthest ice dwarf (formerly the furthest planet) in our galaxy. We asked our resident Rocket Scientist and Mission Systems Engineer at MDA’s Robotics and […] Announcements Speaker Blog Campus/Youth TED/TEDx Environment/Green Motivation & Inspiration Current Events Guest Blog Tech/Future