Along with charges of fake news and photoshopped pics, thanks to Facebook, Snapchat and others, we’ll soon have to contend with a glut of reality-altering effects as they creep into our everyday post. As tech companies race to give us new ways to enhance our daily lives, it seems like separating fact from fiction is going to get increasingly difficult.

Earlier this week, Apple announced it had purchased the iOS-native app Workflow, an automation tool designed to help made your device smarter, and more productive. Now ordinarily this may not have been big news, but it comes at a time when the company is trying to position its mobile devices as real workhorses. So this week, on Episode 118 on The Campfire Project, we revisit the changing nature of work thanks to the computers in our pockets.

Matt and Keith take a deep dive into Facebook Messenger's new "Day," and how it compares to Snap Stories, Instagram, and visual messaging as a whole.

Uber’s meteoric rise from another Silicon Valley startup to the next great evolution in transportation has been one fraught with resistance. Led by its aggressive CEO, Travis Kalanick, the company has spearheaded a new one way to get around, and earned a reputation for running over anyone or anything in its path. With a massive valuation though, the company seemed untouchable. Until…this past month. Now all hell is breaking loose.

A week ago, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, penned a post in defence of Globalization. In the age of Trump, it was a striking note, and one that has fuelled rumours of Zuckerberg running for President one day. But Facebook is already one of the most powerful company’s on Earth. So, with such a large megaphone at his disposal, how will Zuckerberg use it?

All across the political spectrum, people are angry, upset, and disillusioned. The 2016 election has left its mark and now, left in the fallout, is an audience still grappling to make sense of what exactly happened, and how. As the US, and the world grapples with having a President Trump, one line of attack has reemerged as particularly effective: Satire. But how effective can comedy be?

If the Trump candidacy was defined by Twitter rants, the Trump Presidency may be defined by “fake news”. Since his election, the president and others have only intensified their use of the slur to shame journalists they don’t like. At the same time, dozens of new social media accounts have sprung up purporting to be run by “rogue” government staffers, intent on tweeting out facts that run counter to White House claims. And it is getting increasingly difficult to tell fact from fiction.

This Friday, January 20 will mark history, as Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. With his trademark bluster, Trump has ridden a wave of popularity to Inauguration Day, mostly famously by treating his Twitter followers as his own bully pulpit. His campaign style was unique to the social media era, and in direct contrast to that of the outgoing president, Barack Obama, whose administration modernized the way the White House speaks to people of all generations.

After a 2 month delay, Apple released its newest product just before Christmas - AirPods. When they were unveiled in the fall, these small, sleek wireless were billed as the ultimate answer to the non-headphone jack having iPhone 7. They sold out immediately. It’s clear though that Apple is laying the groundwork for something much bigger with this new hardware – the ability for your devices to tell stories right in your ear. It’s an interesting concept, but is that what people really want?

Well, here we are – the end of 2016. It has been…well, certainly not a boring year. And as it comes to a close, we wanted to take a look back at some of our favourite technologies of the last 12 months - and the impressive stories they told.