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All Blog Posts Tagged 'future' (8)

The Incidental Museum pt 2

The United States Space Surveillance Network (USSSN) is a global array of sensor sites operating under the US Strategic Command, in partnership with space agencies of other nations. This network continuously identifies, catalogues and tracks a collection of approx. 21,000 artifacts orbiting the Earth.…

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Added by m. w. burns on March 4, 2012 at 2:01am — No Comments

The Incidental Museum

The night sky is a menagerie of time, filled with luminous, dislocated specimens like a cabinet of curiosities or a gallery of images from different eras....

Break This Exhibit

Considering the role that both accident and demolition play in the arts and sciences, it is surprising there are no museums devoted to their study and appreciation. …

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Added by m. w. burns on December 28, 2011 at 2:33am — No Comments

The World Is Already On Exhibit

Museums have been experimenting with augmentation like audio tours and mobile devices for years, but new apps point to an eventual content saturation where the world itself can be considered an exhibition and we are all its curators.…

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Added by m. w. burns on November 8, 2011 at 12:38pm — No Comments

Let's talk eco - top 100 eco words in our design studio

I have noticed a great rise of new buzzing eco talk in the studio here, so much so I thought it would be fun to write them down and post them on our blog here on museum3.

See if you know them all – I bet you don’t (bear in mind we are enormously inventive so I am pretty sure that some of these eco terms are a spur-of-the-moment fabricated designer lingua…

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Added by Tamara De Schepper on June 20, 2011 at 11:54pm — No Comments

The future of the Web (as seen on Read, Write, Web)

Linda and I have both seen this and agreed it was pretty good and simple.

The presentation is only brief (15 slides) and a couple of months old, but it says a LOT:…

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Added by Mal Booth on August 26, 2008 at 7:46pm — No Comments

Some future trends for the Internet and museums

I was part of a panel at a seminar - "Collections and the Web: Audiences, Content and Technologies" - organised by CAN (Collections Australia Network) on Tuesday, 27 May: "Future Trends". I began with a short presentation in which I attempted to plot a number of future possibilities in terms of probability and desirability:

Spam to increase (almost certain), which may lead to...
The total collapse of email, as we now…

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Added by Jonathan Cooper on May 29, 2008 at 11:00am — 9 Comments

New at Fresh & New - Conversation, the Commons, museum futures, and 'architectures of participation'

I've just posted a long and slightly rambling (as usual) reflection on the activities of the past few weeks both virtual and physical.

I talk about a few things I've been at recently - Museum Australia's Museum Futures, a State Library reference librarians conference - and some things I've been reading.…

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Added by Seb Chan on May 27, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments