Recommended Reading – Page 5 – American Alliance of Museums

Futurist Friday: Kamermaker (House Printer)

By Elizabeth Merritt

Technology is disrupting traditional industries left, right and sideways. This week’s Futurist Friday assignment asks: how could digital fabrication disrupt the way we design and build cities? The inventors of Kamermaker (House …
Futurist Friday: the future, as foretold in the past

By Elizabeth Merritt

Italian information visualization designer Giorgia Lupi created a fabulous “map of time” for Brain Pickings, showing future events as predicted by famous novels. It includes a breakdown of the forecasts in these works of …
Futurist Friday: Visitor Analytics

By Elizabeth Merritt

Your Futurist Friday assignment is this very brief (1.58 min) video from Cisco about using Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) analytics to locate and track every wireless device in a venue. While the commentary in this piece is about …
Futurist Friday: Hyper-Reality

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m happy to see that Keiichi Matsuda successfully funded his “Hyper-Reality” film series through a Kickstarter project. It looks like an awesome futurist project. This series of 5 minute films, set in Medellin, Columbia, …
Futurist Friday: Hana Yakiniku

By Elizabeth Merritt

Introducing Hana Yakiniku–an internet connected olfactory device that lets users generate food smells. As this video points out, it has all sorts of applications: for impecunious students, making cheap food smell like a fancy meal …
Futurist Friday: Robots for Humanity

By Elizabeth Merritt

Yah, I know, I know. The last “Futurist Friday” was about robots, too. But this is too interesting to pass up. I’ve written about instances in which robots are replacing human labor. But as I read more, it seems like the …
Futurist Friday: Cloud Robots

By Elizabeth Merritt

Actually, the term is “cloud robotics” (machine-to-maching learning between robots over the web). But “cloud robots” sounds way cooler. In any case, your Futurist Friday assignment, this 5 1/2 minute video …
Museums in the Future: A View from Across the Pond

By Elizabeth Merritt

I was originally going to feature the report “Museums in a Digital Age” from Arups’ Foresight + Research + Innovation thinktank in a Futurist Friday post, but I try to confine the recommendations in that series to short bites of reading or …
Futurist Friday: Securing the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

Followers of CFM may have noticed I’m on a bit of a “creepy” streak–from blogging about how museums may start surveilling their visitors, to noting the emergence of computer viruses that can leap from machine to …
Futurist Friday: Artifacts of the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

What artifacts will history museums of the future collect, and how will we interpret them? Scenarios—fictional stories of potential futures—can help us imagine how we would adapt to alternative outcomes. Often scenarios can be found in …