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Happy Thanksgiving! The Future of Food
Sharing a glimpse of a future of healthy, sustainable, locally sourced food. Enjoy! #Crickets #LIVINFarmsHive.Yours from the (grateful) futur… -
Coming Soon—the Smithsonian Learning Lab
Many museums are retooling their digital resources to create more meaningful experiences for visitors—both local as well as virtual. Earlier this year we highlighted one example—the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh’s Innovation Studio. … -
The Alliance Announces Five Newly Accredited Museums and Six Museums Re-Accredited
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2015 ARLINGTON, VA – The American Alliance of Museums has announced that five museums were newly accredited and six museums earned re-accreditation at the October 19-20, 2015 meeting of the Accreditation … -
Worldless Wednesday: Taking Attendance
Real or parody? Make your guess before you follow the link… #Churchix #FacialRecognition #Privacy #TakingAttendance Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) … -
How Might Museums Make Future Learning Ecosystems More Resilient?
Happy American Education Week! To help us celebrate, Katherine Prince of KnowledgeWorks invites you to join her on an exploratory mission to 2025–a future of education in which museums play a starring role. You can review CFM’s … -
What Museums Can Learn from the NYT’s Google Cardboard Project
Lookie what I found bundled in with my Sunday newspaper: It’s a free Google Cardboard device from the New York Times. I promptly downloaded the app and started watching the 3-D, immersive short films they have already released: a profile … -
Monday Musing: Social Impact Bonds
Monday musings are my way of sharing “brain blorts”: brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently, both to help clarify my thinking an in the hopes of generating discussion and response. I give myself 15 … -
Futurist Friday: It’s ByoLogycal
Your Futurist Friday assignment, watch this 5 minute video, and tell me whether you are willing to try the drug it touts: ByoRenew, a synthetic virus introduced in 2012 with the promise that “you might never be sick again.” … -
Touring “Slavery at Monticello”: A Small App with a Big Responsibility
One frustrating limitation of CFM’s work is that usually I have to cover the great things going on in museums based on second hand accounts—articles I’ve read in the press, Skype or email interviews with museum staff. So I was delighted … -
Playful strategy development for museums
When I tell people I’m a futurist, I inevitably get some jokes about crystal balls and Tarot decks. Ironically, I actually HAVE a Tarot deck on my desk: one that I’ve hacked to create a “forecasting deck”—a clever tool to help people …
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