Hacking Reality at the Academy of the Impossible

Submitted by jesse on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 01:42

Metaviews settled into its new home at the Academy of the Impossible on January 1. Since then, the space has been the setting for regular events in the Hacking Reality series, along with headquarters for our regular Wednesday teleseminars and other professional activities.

“The Future of Health” has been at the top of the agenda in 2012, as we have moved into detailed discussion about existing and future devices designed for medical professionals to diagnose patients, along with apps being produced with the hopes of letting each individual take preventative and therapeutic measures into their own hands.

Some of the other topics we have touched on so far this year include:

  • The new monopolies of Apple, Facebook and Google and whether growing criticism of all these services will make way for viable alternatives
  • Pinterest emerging as the most popular new social networking website of 2012 and whether it reflects a demand for more websites that appeal to women
  • A growing need to mentor the older generation of online users — toward encouraging them to see the internet as more than just a procrastination tool
  • Whether social media influence can be better measured than algorithm-based services which can mointor the reach of messages based on more than numbers
  • New advances in Customer Relationship Management tools that can allow advertisers, marketers, public relations and government to know who is really listening

    Hacking Reality, the series designed by Metaviews for subscribers, members and guests of the Academy of the Impossible, has provided a further outlet for our ideas. Campaign School and YouTube School alternate on Sunday afternoon to explore the media and messaging. Test the Impossible provides the representatives of new and innovative products a stage on which to show off what they have to offer.

    Play the Impossible is a regular forum for anyone curious in the evolution of videogames and Hack the Impossible does the same for open source innovations. Plus, our Impossible Ideas series kicked off with columnist Rick Salutin in a salon format designed to contemplate where our relationship with technology is taking us.

    Forthcoming programs presented by Metaviews at the Academy will delve deeper into areas of communication — including the production and distribution of online content and the development of internet humour. Subscribers are particularly encouraged to play a role in shaping these events and advise where Hacking Reality can head next.

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