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Futurist Friday: Remixing the Future
Easy assignment this week: devote 3 minutes and 24 seconds to a lightning tour of future visions expressed in film, remixed by Eclectic Method. Phil found this video via the LIS (Library and Information Science) Blog, and a link in … -
What’s the Difference Between a Visionary and a Futurist?
That’s the great question a young woman posed to me when I spoke at Hollins Universitylast week. My off-the-cuff answer was that a visionary is trying to shape the world. It’s the job of a futurist to help visionaries figure out how to … -
Printing the Future
When I read that MakerBot was opening its first retail outlet, located in NYC, I sent a tweet-out looking for a volunteer to be CFM’s futurist-on-the-street. That is how I connected with Blaire Moskowitz, Business Development and Marketing … -
Monday Musings: the Importance of Storytelling (and what museums and e-commerce have in common)
I launched Monday Musings last week as a way of sharing intriguing things I spot on the Web that deserve more than a tweet, but about which I’m not ready to pull together my thoughts for a full length post. I set myself a 15 minute time … -
Are Museums #AgeReady?
Today’s guest post is from Phil Katz, assistant director for research at the American Alliance of Museums and my co-conspirator on TrendsWatch and some of the other trend analysis projects here at CFM. One theme we covered in TrendsWatch … -
A Reply to “On the Opportunities and Challenges of Reproductions”
Today’s guest post is by Suse Cairns (PhD candidate and author of the blog Museum Geek) and Mia Ridge Chair of the Museums Computer Group, author of the blog Open Objects and PhD candidate. Suse and Mia recently engaged in a great … -
Monday Musing: When is a Little Attention Worth the Risk?
A lot of my time goes into reading and synthesizing stuff relevant to the future of museums, and sharing it via Twitter, Pinterest, Dispatches from the Future of Museums, various reportsand of course this blog. Not all the interesting … -
You Might Like….
One of my recent music discoveries is Stereo MCs—an English hip/hop electronica dance group which didn’t even form until I was three years out of college and well past the usual age at which one imprints on music. Stereo MCs might seem an … -
Can Early Learning in Museums Matter?
Today’s guest post is by Colin Robertson, Charles N. Mathewson Curator of Education at the Nevada Museum of Art. I fell in love with NMA when I was in Reno last year for both personal and professional reasons. Personal, because it fuses … -
Picturing the Future
I’ve shared a number of scenarios on this blog, mostly in the form of short stories envisioning potential futures. But written scenarios have their limitations. Words are specific—the reader can only build out the story, explore the …
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