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Interesting take on thinking beyond privacy issues when considering regulations about recording information about Internet usage. "Regulators need to take care not to treat the analysis of anonymized information as if it were an ominous new form of surveillance."

An organic computer? Brain communication over continents via the internet? This would be one way to "connect" with our museum visitors;-)

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What is the museum's role in providing a "healthy diet" of media?  

Described as developing models for informal learning and visitor engagement in museums via mobile devices and interactive digital labeling

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A trend towards less information rather than more?

When you apply for an online loan, you are just required to provide few basic details in the form. Later, when your application is taken up for processing, you are asked to furnish more information.

Intelligent sensors collect information about operating conditions combined with analytics software will help facility managers become far more proactive about managing buildings at peak efficiency

New media technology provides a "Third Space" where some Muslims who are using social media to contest gender assumptions, normative aspects of religious practice, and cultural experience. In this context, YouTube offers such a space as an informal meeting place to create community and to express new identities.

Interesting! And great to know about in the context of our soon-to-launch online exhibition, Muslima: Muslim Women's Art & Voices.

When we went from a production economy to an information economy, the asset of physical strength was no longer valued. It became a knowledge economy-the single advantage that men have over women, which is strength, was no longer a defining job necessity.

Integration is happening on the technical side to provide seamless access to information no matter what format or under whose domain it might fall. Can integration be achieved -- or should it -- among the audiences of these different but related types of institutions/collections?

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

The Shift Age is about humanity's new era. As the Information Age gives way to the Shift Age, we are entering a time of transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. Why do things happen so fast? Why do we feel unsettled, even out of control? David Houle identifies and explains the dynamics and forces that already have reshaped and will continue to reshape our world for the next 20 years. He comments from the front lines of the Shift Age on issues and topics that affect our lives. We have entered the final, global stage of humanity's cultural, social, and economic evolutionary journey: the Shift Age.

A new kind of consumer called the "prosumer" wants information, not a sales pitch

I recently returned from a family visit during which my 17 year old niece, who is heading off to college next fall, informed me she rarely uses her FB account anymore, and then only to send pictures.