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3-D Printing Digital Fabrication Unleashes Creativity
3-D printing is the closest we’ve come so far to making real-life versions of the “replicators” from Star Trek. 2012 was the breakout year for this technology, as it spread from the home workshops of Makers to new public “hackerspaces” and … -
Futurist Friday: Stranger than Fiction
Looking for content to listen to on the way to the Alliance annual meeting? Slate magazine recently launched a six episode podcast–“Stranger than Fiction.” Each week, Tim Wu, a Future Tense Fellow at the New American … -
Make Art, Meet Strangers
Here’s a story that demonstrates the power of social media to create community: I met Jeff Greenspan via Twitter after I retweeted Michelle DelCarlo (@popupmuseum) when she wrote “Creating communal rather than ‘in tandem’ … -
Art, 3D Printing & Collections: Museums in the Post-Audience Era
For the past three years CFM has sponsored an “artist interpreting the future of museums” in the AAM Showcase. (In 2010 it was the The Pinky Show, 2011 Tracy Hicks, and in 2012 the Drawing Club.) This year we are doing something a little … -
Futurist Friday: Robo-bees to the Rescue
This post from Scientific American paints a lovely picture of the future of disaster response. “Consider a rescue worker with a box full of 1,000 RoboBees—a package that would weigh less than a kilogram. The RoboBees could be … -
MOOCs and the Museum
Are you paying attention to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)? You should be. These courses, offering free education on an enormous scale, are a bright spot in the dark landscape of rising educational debt. While they are still very … -
Disconnecting to Reconnect Can People Unplug from a Hyperconnected World?
In our always-on, hyperconnected world, people are beginning to assess the potential downside of being tethered to the Internet and hand-held devices. Turns out, however, that digital detox isn’t always easy; the umbilical Internet is … -
On Objects, and Storytelling
Rob Walker The theme for this year’s annual meeting is Storytelling, and we’ve recruited Rob Walker, co-designer of the Significant Objects project, as a thought leader to help us explore how stories add tangible value to the … -
The Membership Game
Yesterday I attended an event at the Hirshhorn organized by the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, exploring the use of digital badges in museums. It was a great session, and you can watch a recording of the whole … -
Art Viewing and Mindfulness Meditation
Of the six trends we feature in TrendsWatch 2013, one that has generated the a lot of feedback so far is “Disconnecting to Reconnect”—our exploration of how people are going to great lengths to “unplug.” One of the people I connected with …
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