Future of Museums

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Cute spot on personal space to sell cars - creative director claims "the car is technically our 'third' space." A different definition worth adding to our thoughts?

An update on the impressive launch of the 3Doodler pen I cover in my "Scanning" section of the Foresight Workshop.  Time to update my slides again.

Nice summary of future trends by some leaders in the tech industry

This is pretty crazy!

3D printing has made it to our local middle school!

Can be used for prototyping parts, electronics assembly, biotech lab-on-a-chip experiments, and assembling small mechanical systems in hostile environments -- like museums?  :-)

Instead of working to the advantage of a delivery company's schedules, Parcel is a service that slants package deliveries in favor of the person who ordered them. 

Part of the reason that enrollment levels for higher education continue to fall may reflect that many of us "are locating educational opportunities every day in short spurts, online or face to face, and for hundreds of dollars or at no cost."

Nike moving away from hardware to focus on software integration with other platforms. A chink the armor of wearable technology as the next big thing that is already here?

Another corporate museum worth noting.

The repopulating of urban areas is certainly a trend that will affect museums.  But do you agree that the government should end the mortgage interest deduction because focus is shifting from suburbs to cities?  Don't people who buy condos in cities benefit from the same deduction as those buying houses in the suburbs?