Futurist Friday: Exploring the Cone of Plausibility
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Clarke’s Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —Arthur C. Clarke, “Profiles of The Future”, 1961 Today’s recommendation: read this …
Futurist Friday: Alt History & Alt Futures
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Ever wonder how the present would be different, if some some key event in our past had torqued just enough to propel us into a different sector of the Cone of Plausibility? Exploring such …
Where Might the Boston PILOT lead us?
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
When I leading forecasting exercises, helping people to question assumptions and imagine alternate futures, one scenario that participants repeatedly create is one in which museums no …
Futurist Friday: IBM Watson Applies for Membership in the Oxford Union
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OK, I made that headline up. Oxford isn’t really in the position of having to decide whether to accept a computer program as a member of its prestigious debating society. (For one …
Museum Eras*—Creativaceous, CarbonNeutraliferous, Developonian?
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My last posts on “Futurism 101” talked about the sneaky nature of change, and the constant need to scan for signs of change that is creeping up or waiting to spring upon us. This post …
Shaping the First 100 Days
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I hope you read my colleague Gail’s Tuesday post encouraging museumers to participate in the upcoming Museums Advocacy Day(February 27-18). And in a nice bit of timing, the first episode of …
By Any Means Necessary: Digital, Virtual, and Travelling African American and Civil Rights Exhibitions
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Alliance Blog
It was such an honor to attend the 40th Association of African American Museums (AAAM) conference. To be surrounded by people that are so passionate and committed to keeping the legacies …
Four Ways of Seeing the Future
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Last July, Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child project and co-founder of MIT Media Lab, keynoted at the WorldFuture 2013 conference. In the ten minute extract of his …
Are Natural History Museums Ready to Become Superheroes?
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Look at the tagline at the top of this page: “because museums can change the world.” I can make a credible argument that natural history museums have the greatest potential, among their …
Unschoolers on Museums
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Today’s guest post is from Ilana and Maya McGrath, passion-driven learners who live with their mother Sara, a National Unschooling Examiner, in Seattle. (You can read more of Sara’s …
Unschooling—a Fringe Future of Education
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Earlier this month I blogged about the future of education—a theme CFM will be exploring for some time. As part of this exploration, I will share scanning hits—news, hints, pictures and …
September Advocacy Updates – Congress Returns and NVRD 2023
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Advocacy Alert
Advocacy Alert – September 8, 2023 In this Alliance Advocacy Alert: Speak Up for Museums: Congress Returns for a Busy Fall Season – and a Government Shutdown? News You Can Use: …