Visual Design Journal by Dayanna Arias

"Tech firms, varying from Google to Amazon to Facebook, are each hiring thousands of workers and leasing or building millions of square feet in commercial real estate, rivalling Wall Street to become one of the area’s largest private employers and property occupants. In the process, they are transforming a city of finance, fashion and media into a hub for software, e-commerce and the Internet." This trend was started on Monday when Google announced that it was planning to create a $1 billion campus just south of West Village. By pushing to occupy this space, Google has become one of New York's biggest occupants of office space "allowing it to double its work force in the city to more than 14,000 over the next decade." Google's new campus allows it to strength its position on Manhattans West Side. This will eventually lead to accelerating neighbourhood changes in the once industrial district just of West Village. This would be just like when Go...

     "C3PO, R2D2 and Wall-E are three distinctly memorable robots that captured our hearts as they rolled and beeped across the silver screen.  But pint-sized and friendly, humanoid robots are now more than just fictional characters. They’re finding their way into new roles as teachers, ready to shape the way students learn in the classroom.  From as young as 12-months-old, toddlers are learning  new words  from robot instructors. By primary school, children are capable of learning features of  new languages  taught to them by humanoid robots." Robots do the job the same way as a teacher but what makes it easier for kids to learn from them is that they find them more interesting. Kids now a days are surrounded by technology all around them. They are being taught from an early age to learn how to code so in the future, they can code other robots to be more proficient in teaching future generations. This can encourage many kids to learn...

Throughout the years, the Internet has increased and websites have gotten more complex. This has caused many other websites to become slower and unresponsive. One company that has been having trouble with this is Amazon who says that for every one second delay in loading time, their profits are cut by one per cent. “Computer scientists at the world famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a system that can reliably make websites load 34% faster.”  The existing computing platforms do not have the bandwidth and capabilities to process, store, manage, transmit and secure the big data we need to solve problems.  As internet connectivity becomes ever more important, new technologies are emerging to connect the entire globe with better, faster service. On several continents, research and development projects are underway to provide internet connectivity via  high-altitude balloons. U nlike those used to capture weather data, unmanned  solar-powered ...