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Digital thinking tools for better decision making
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3.2 Reach

Reach refers to the fact that digital technology allows us to share data easily with potentially millions of other people around the globe. It also allows us to collect data from spacecraft at vast distances away from Earth. For example, NASA’s New Horizons project [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] is sending back information from the edge of the Solar System (Figure 11).

A dark sky with two bright but slightly blurred objects.
Figure 11 Two objects from the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto