• Futurist Friday: Stories for a Brighter Future

    Yesterday I ran over and picked up my copy of the new science fiction anthology Hieroglyph from the independent bookstore Politics & Prose. (Short run–it’s only about a mile from my house.)Hieroglyph was inspired by a …
  • Monday Musing: Paying the Rent(al)

    You may have noticed I snuck in an extra post on the Blog today, encouraging you to start as soon as possible on session proposals for the 2015 AAM meeting in Atlanta. Now back to the (semi)regularly scheduled Monday Musing with a 15 …
  • Futurist Friday: Compiling a Summer Reading List

    Earlier this week I tweeted about the search by UCLA law professor Ted Parsons for reading/viewing to assign for his upcoming seminar “Law in Futurist Social Visions.” The course will use speculative fiction to explore challenges that may …
  • The Future of Storytelling

    On a recent series of flights across the country I burned through Scott Westerfeld’s “Leviathan” series: three Steampunk-style alt-history novels.  One fundamental premise of strategic foresight is that any area of …
  • Futurist Friday: Past Visions of Future Highways

    It is fun, and instructive, to revisit the future as envisioned by past visionaries–in this case, Disney. This [8:47] min short from 1958 envisions color-coded highways that defrost themselves, parking elevators and self-driving cars …
  • Futurist Friday: I Think, Therefore I Am

    Some futurist scenarios are more probable than others. But even those that seem wildly improbable help us see the present in a new light. The March, a lyrical animation (5 min)  wrote, directed, and animated by Josh Fortune for the Sci-Fi …
  • Futurist Friday: The Happy City Index

    You may be familiar with Bhutan’s “Gross National Happiness Index,” established to measure something more than economic well-being of a country. Or perhaps you’ve followed the UK’s Happy Museum project, which …
  • Futurist Friday: Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me

    One of my favorite methods of helping people envision the future is encouraging them to invent “future artifacts.” These objects embody the technology, culture and overall flavor of the (not-yet extant) society may create them. …
  • Punking about Museums

    The recent “museum blogger” day on Twitter yielded a wealth of recommendations on who to follow on the blogosphere for great content in and around the museum sector. (You can retrieve those recommendations by doing a Twitter search on …
  • Monday Musing: All the World’s a Museum

    Due to a technical glitch last week’s Dispatches from the Future of Museums is coming out later today. When it does appear in your in-box, take a look at this article: Dubai To Add Art Museums In Metro Stations Gulf Business reports …

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