Future of Museums

Living in close proximity to ever-rising water can be a difficult prospect, and while the Dutch have come up with all sorts of ways to work with instead of against it, this is a new achievement: apartments that float.

Increasing income inequality is one of the primary reasons for the growth of income segregation.

Is this future of quasi-govenment enterprise?

Ophone? Olfactory experiences to be delivered digitally like email or instant messages. Can you smell the sympohony?

Personalized MOOCs - an opportunity for museums?

Here's a possible trend NO one could have imagined. "The nightmare scenarios is it gets established in California and then a mosquito bites someone with an imported case of dengue." 

This could also be helpful to blind museum visitors

MBA in Strategic Foresight is designed to develop leaders who can inspire companies, NGOs, and governments to imagine better futures. Students also learn to manage the processes of creating and implementing new business models and strategies in order to make those futures real.

What are you missing out on in your own city by sticking to your established routes each day, or driving instead of walking?

Sit-able places are key, interdisciplinary focal points where the delight of "placemaking" and cultural traditions of "watching the world go by" merge with the sometimes conflicting domains of law and politics, economic development, public safety, gentrification and the homeless.

Likely new mayor of NY wants inclusionary zoning to require developers to build affordable housing

Researchers can now track a moving object and create a 3D film of its motion

great places ("you know them when you see them" as we say in our baseline report) are listed in 3 categories: neighborhoods, streets and public places.

forecast that worldwide spending on wearable technology will hit $1.4 billion this year. By 2018, that figure will hit $19 billion

interesting to note that the Amaze project will be unveiled at London's Science Museum

Some observations about how museums have changed since 2008 and the Great Recession

The internet has replaced the importance of libraries as a repository for knowledge. And digital distribution has replaced the role of a library as a central hub for obtaining the containers of such knowledge: books. Will this happen to museums too?

"I am bothered by the "big box" science centers, $300 million dollar projects seem unnecessary.  You could build 100 smaller science centers for the same $300M budget.  My thinking behind Science Pop (science center in a box), has grown out of a need for community based science centers."

What are the places that draw people together and create a sense of community? They want a way to feel connected to other people in the place that they share.