A Call for Digital Explorers

Would you consider yourself an explorer? If the worlds of tech and media are a vast expanse of wilderness, are you just wandering, or actively wondering? Have you used the new media and available technology to set forth on any voyages of discovery?

These people did. Who needs billions of dollars and millions of man-hours to launch something into space? They used a digital camera, a GPS-enabled iPhone, a weather balloon, and a desire to see the heavens for themselves -- and successfully launched and retrieved their own space vehicle. Galileo would be proud. Check it out.

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

In my last post about finding a purpose for learning and using new media, I made a critical omission: exploration. We need to learn new media because we need to explore.