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Futurist Friday: Empathetic AI
Whenever a new technology starts to take off (drones, 3D printing, Virtual Reality), the initial breathless coverage in the press is inevitably followed by articles deriding the trivial applications of these advances. We’re deluged … -
Free your mind! Funky futures & transformative education
“If you free your mind, you free your relationship to time”—George Clinton, funky musician and Afrofuturist Vibrant (adjective): Full of energy and enthusiasm. Pulsating. Bright and Striking… Learning (noun): The acquisition of … -
Send Me to SxSW to Spread the Word about Museum Awesomeness
I need your help to create a future in which encounters like this don’t happen: At a convening of all sorts of important education types—foundation staff, teachers, policy makers—one of the participants turns to the chair of EdCom and … -
Monday Musing: unbiased wages
A few weeks ago I tweeted about a post by the estimable Vu Le in which he argued that “basing pay on salary history is a harmful, borderline-unethical practice that we need to abolish.” He points out that calibrating salary … -
Futurist Friday: Who Will You Care For? Who Will Care For You?
Many of my friends are members of the “sandwich generation”–caring both for children and for their own parents. That’s difficult enough right now, and as a new report from the Institute for the Future (IFTF) points … -
The Community Futures Lab: Oral Histories, Oral Futures, and Quantum Time
This is Nicole with a bit of field reporting about futurist work in practice. Last week, I traveled to Philadelphia, PA to visit the Community Futures Lab, a project of the Black Quantum Futurism collective. Co-founder Rasheedah Phillips … -
Museum People are the Best!
Dan and Marieke at the Renwick Galleryin Washington, DC One of my favorite museum podcasts—Museum People—just launched its second season with an episode profiling AAM’s own Laura Lott. In this series, produced by the New England … -
Monday Musing: the future of philanthropy
I included an essay by David Callahan in last week’s edition of Dispatches from the Future of Museums because I was struck by his projections of how government budget cuts may promote the rise of “crisis … -
Futurist Friday: Telepathic Theater
What if you could hear what characters in a play were thinking, as well as what they were saying? How would that change how playwrights create and audiences experience performance?While my main futurist focus is museums, I keep my eye on … -
A Blog Committed to Space-Making and Equity
Hi, all! This is Nicole writing to recommend an addition to your summer reading list. I’m excited to share a source from my scanning files, Brown Girls Museum Blog (BGMB). You can check out the full blog here. Co-curated by Ravon Ruffin …
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