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Futurist Friday: Rise of the (Cute, Self-aware) Robots
Have you seen Ex Machina yet? I watched it on a flight back from London. Its depiction of artificial intelligence is way, way ahead of the actual state of the field, but this week we saw a hint, just a tiny bit of evidence, that we may be … -
Notes from the Team: An Introduction, or Why Predict the Future, Anyway?
I am so pleased to introduce a new member of the CFM team—Nicole Ivy will be working with me for the next two years, supported by a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. I invited Nicole to introduce herself today—you … -
Futurist Friday: Seeing the Bigger Picture
You can follow FiveBooks (& their cutemanatee mascot) on Twitter@five_books Today, for your weekly fix of futurism, I recommend you bop over to the Five Books site to read this wonderful interview with Andrew Curry, director of The … -
Wearable Technology in the Body Metrics Exhibition
In TrendsWatch 2015 I cited The Tech Museum of Innovation for their creative exhibition on wearables called Body Metrics. We are pleased to bring you an update on the exhibition from Romie Littrell, Curator / Project Director – … -
Stitching Together Open Collections Data
In TrendsWatch 2015 I cited last year’s CitStitch Hackathon as an example of natural history museums collaborating with the public to create open datasets about collections. So I was super happy to open an email from Robert Guralnick, … -
Monday Musing: Field Trips & Videoconferencing
Monday musings are usually 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 … -
Futurist Friday: the Future of Work, and Happinesss
In a recent article in the Atlantic, Derek Thompson refers to work as the “unofficial religion of America.” Thompson is the latest in a long lineage of prognosticators envisioning a future in which most people don’t have … -
The Museum of 20??
One great thing about having a growing circle of future-oriented peeps is that we swap and share opportunities to engage in future-think. This past spring I had to turn down an invitation to join a fabulous group of people to discuss my … -
Monday Musing: Museums and “the Flag”
I’ve been following the chorus calling for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from…well, everywhere. The Alabama and South Carolina Capitols, the physical shelves of Walmart and the virtual shelves of Amazon and eBay, even games in … -
Futurist Friday: The Flood Next Time
Bjarke Ingels BIG architects in Copenhagen, won a federal competition to design storm protection for New York City. In this article he speaks about how his work in geoengineering is inspired by science fiction–specifically Kim …
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