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Futurist Friday: Agenda 2026
To paraphrase Churchy, from Pogo, “Futurist Friday comes on a Thursday this week.” I am delighted to find that our museum association colleagues in the Netherlands—the Nederlandse Museumvereniging—produced a report last year that parallels … -
Futures Studies 101: How to Read the Newspaper
I joke that the biggest change in my life since becoming director of CFM is that now I read the financial section of the New York Times. Except it isn’t a joke. Once future studies gave me a framework for my reading, I started reading more … -
Futurist Friday: Exploring the Cone of Plausibility
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 interview for Big Think in which Dr. Michio Kaku … -
Futurist Friday: Exploring the Future of Education
I’ve been blogging a lot about the future of education, and the coming of a new educational era. If we are on the cusp of transformational change, it’s very important for museum futurists to be actively scanning for hints of what this new … -
Futurist Friday: BLDGBlog
Sometimes scanning for change is about finding information. Sometimes it’s about fueling your imagination, seeking out what Jane McGonigal called “brain grenades”—ideas that shake up your thinking and open your mind to new possibilities. … -
Futurist Friday: Past Visions of the Future
Meet Matt Novak. Matt is a self-identified “accidental expert” on past visions of the future, and oversees the Paleofuture blog—an online archive of materials related to retro-futurism. Paleofuture explores “the past that never was.” Why … -
Futurist Friday: BioPunk Fiction
“The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.”—Frank HerbertMe, authoritative voice, telling you, museum professional: Read More Science FictionI know, it may look and feel like wasting …
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