From the President: Symbiotic and United--Our Society's Mission Looking Ahead

“ECS United” embodies the integration and interdependence that our modern-day technologies require—their power sources, their function, their capability, and how they add to the quality of life. What we all work on and what we will present at ECS meetings all contribute to the evolution of our way of life—and little exists in a vacuum anymore. In many of these technologies, a strong sense of symbiosis has also evolved. These days, it is difficult to find a device that does not contain a multitude of separate technologies developed to work with each other, that ultimately evolved to depend upon one another. You could argue that we all get great benefit from the technologies we create, and we develop better technology because we strive for new knowledge, meaningful interaction, and a better way of doing things that matter to us. When we look into our Society’s mission, its meetings and publication content, and the growing diversity in division activities and symposium topics, we also see this symbiosis mirrored.