Links
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Blogs:
Museums:
- Archimuse (Archives and Museum Informatics)
- Musematic (from AAM’s Media and Technology Committee)
- MUSEUM-id (IDEAS exchange and SOCIAL Networking for Museum Professionals)
- Museum Audience Insights (from Reach Advisors)
- Museum 2.0
- Museums Now (Gyroscope)
- Open Museum (Heritance, the Open Museum People)
- Prerogative of Harlots (Chris Norris, Peabody Museum of Natural History)
- The Uncataloged Museum (Linda Treadwell)
- WestMuse (Western Museums Association)
The Future:
- Authentic Futures (“linking emerging technologies and current trends with the processes of human evolution”)
- Dr Patrick Dixon – Future Trends
- FutureThinkTank (FutureThink a foresight and innovation consulting firm
- Paleo-Future (“A Look into the Future that Never Was”)
- The Long Now
- The Future of Education is Here (Knowledgeworks Foundation blog)
- Worldchanging: Bright Green (From Worldchanging.com, a nonprofit media organization dedicated to covering “tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future”)
Other blogs we like:
- Cultural Realms (Rossitza Ohridska on Cultural Tourism)
- Growthology (Kaufman the Foundation for Entrepreneurship)Social Media and Cultural Communication http://nlablog.wordpress.com/ (Angelina Russo, Lynda Kelly, Seb Chan)
- The Loom (Carl Zimmer’s blog at Discover Magazine)
- The Artful Manager (arts and culture, Andrew Taylor)
- You Learn Something New Every Day (A blog about learning from Gillian Martin Mehers and Lizzie Crudgington at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.)
The future of museums (and related institutions):
Please see the bibliography elsewhere on this site.
- Horizon.Museum Project
- Institute for the Future of the Book
- Libraries for the Future
- “Transforming Museums” (annual conference at the
Social and cultural trends:
- Seven Revolutions
- TED (“Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers”)
- The Tomorrow Project (large-scale social trends, with a focus on social and political issues)
- Trendwatching (focus on consumer trends)
- WIRED Nextfest
Futurist organizations and resources:
- Association of Professional Futurists
- The DaVinci Institute
- The Future of Work
- Futures Studies program at the
- Institute for Alternative Futures
- The Institute for the Future (the oldest futurist think tank in the country)
- The Long Now Foundation
- Manoa School of Futures Studies at the
- The Millennium Project (A UN project with a global perspective)
- World Future Society
Forecasting tools:
- “Factors Required for Successful Implementation of Futures Research in Decision Making” (prepared for the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute but can be applied to all sorts of institutions and decisions)
- “Principles of Forecasting” (from the International Institute of Forecasters)
- “The 27 Habits of Highly Effective Futurists” ( from the blog Foresight Culture)
Other interesting links:
- Cultural
- Curb Center for Art,
- Futurama, created by the son of a museum director, Matt Groening
- “Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised” – an online exhibit about the futuristic illustrator Arthur Radebaugh (1906-1974), exploring the “past of the future” in American culture.
Robots:
Delegates to the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums were asked to share their views about the museum of the future. One response was “Robots. Lots and lots of robots.” Here they are!
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Cicerobot – a robotic tour guide at the
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