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Museums and AI: Is There a Ghost in the Machine?

By Seema Rao

What are the ethical implications of AI? What role do museums play in the global conversation about data privacy? How can bias impact AI systems? This post, one of three on the topic of artificial intelligence in museums, explores those …
Worldless Wednesday: Taking Attendance

By Elizabeth Merritt

Real or parody? Make your guess before you follow the link… #Churchix #FacialRecognition #Privacy #TakingAttendance Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) …
Futurist Friday: The Digital Panopticon

By Elizabeth Merritt

Who saw you on your way to work today? Even if you didn’t see a soul, chances are, no matter where you live and work, someone did, or could, spot you, via one or more cameras monitoring intersections, store fronts, schools (not to …
Futurist Friday: The Encrypted Archive

By Elizabeth Merritt

Here’s a challenge for GLAMS (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums): how can we guarantee the privacy of donors who want certain records to be kept from the public until a certain date? This article in The Economist kicks off …
Futurist Friday: A Graphic Look at Big Data and Privacy

By Elizabeth Merritt

Sometimes, in this job, I get dang tired of reading. That’s one reason I so often feature videos in Friday’s periodic glimpse of the future. Next best thing to video? Pictures. So I was tickled to stumble across “Terms of …
Privacy in a Watchful World TW 14 update

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is one of a series of mid-year updates on the 2014 TrendsWatch trends. I’ve already posted entries on Big Data, Social Entrepreneurship, the Sharing Economy and Robots, as well as updates on the Crowdsourcing and Philanthropy …
Privacy in a Watchful World: What have you got to hide?

By Elizabeth Merritt

In a world where companies and governments can, and increasingly do, track vast amounts of personal information about our habits, preferences, behavior, communications and even our thoughts, where will we draw the line? People evidently …
Monday Musing: who’s minding the kids?

By Elizabeth Merritt

This week’s Musing is about an article features in Dispatches from the future of Museums last week: “Gates’ $100M Philanthropic Venture inBloom Dies after Parents Say “No Way” (Nonprofit Quarterly). It’s about the demise …
Throwback Thursday: Revisiting the Ransolm

By Elizabeth Merritt

CFM’s latest forecasting report, TrendsWatch 2014, has been out a month now, and I have been getting great feedback. The magic chip reports the paper has been opened over 1,700 times. Carol Stapp, director of the museum education …
Throwback Thursday: Respite, Retreat…and Privacy

By Elizabeth Merritt

In TrendsWatch 2013, we covered the rising dissatisfaction with our always-connected, hyper-digital world, giving birth to a movement dubbed “digital detox.” Now, as documented in TrendsWatch 2013, this desire for respite and …