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Dan Sperber's idea: culture is a giant, asynchronous network of replication, ideas turning into expressions which turn into other, related ideas. … Sperber's idea also suggests increased access to public presentation of ideas will increase the dynamic range of culture overall.

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A 2005 report that does not appear to have a specific long-term focus (as in the future to 2030) but broadly outlines ideas for the "future." Still, this UK association does discuss ideas for improving the management, generally speaking, of museum collections.

it is one of the more interesting stories in web guru land... Good find!

Cafes, then, are both a product of modernity and, through the space they provide for new ideas to develop, a driver of modernity.

One of the more compelling ideas on education I've come across in a while.

Maybe an idea for museum play spaces and children's galleries where many different people touch and wear items?

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I went to this great open house yesterday on campus, "Robot Block Party." Everything from the Nasa robotics team to amateur tinkerers frankensteining robots in their backyards. A couple people from the Exhibits team at the Cal Academy showed a kinect-powered robot they had been tinkering with as a side project, where - their idea - would be to put the robot (with a camera) on the roof, and you'd be able to "drive" it using the kinect inside the museum. And of course, there was the self-driving race car, complete with the ubiquitous Stanford parking sticker.

Social media app uses idea of "third place" (not Facebook and not MySpace) to create your digital home.

interesting-- will have to check this out.. (I did quick peek-- might be a pseudo dating platform?!) BUT could be an interesting analog for self-organizing meetings inside museums

Data visualizations give rise to new and different ideas in many fields and are now being appreciated for their aesthetics as well.

questions about interpretation memorial museums in the context of idea of museums as a third space

Signal that expertise is being shared and new ideas is what is mot important.

ideas about colors and clothing for children changes with the generations

Here's an interesting idea for a way to bring baby boomers into the museum (one section is about retirement planning)...an exhibit that attempts to make financial information resonant and "stick" with people

An unique incentive to buy an electric car: free collision insurance Is this the seed of a trend?  General Motors tried the idea but dropped it earlier.

Australian organization concerned with the future of museums and related enterprises. Individual forums discuss specific projects and ideas.