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Glimpse: How Electronic Tattoos Will Change The World — And Ourselves

It’s the stuff of cyberpunk science fiction — tattoos adorned with flashing lights and sophisticated circuitry. They’ll monitor our vitals, we’re told, and feed us personalized health advice in real time....

source: Futurism

A small rubbery robot could save more water than any conservation campaign

It’s a leaky world: A fifth of the earth’s daily potable water is lost to old, faulty pipes. Over 240,000 water pipes burst in the US each year, with each incident costing an average of $200,000 in infrastructure...

source: Quartz

Memes Have Finally Made It to the Museum

There is something delightfully uncanny about entering the "Two Decades of Memes" exhibit in Queens' Museum of the Moving Image, and seeing a crisp, supersized print of the famed Expanding Brain hanging on the wall. As citizens of the internet, we exclusively consume memes...

source: Vice

5 Years Ago, Their 5Pointz Art Was Erased. Now There's a Museum for It.

With the owner’s permission, artists from around the world had painted on the five-story, block-long building in Long Island City for more than 12 years, transforming it into a destination stop and de facto graffiti museum replete...

source: The New York Times

A school inside a museum? Children's Museum begins final phase of construction on museumlab.

The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh has entered the final phase of construction on their museumlab wing, a new space dedicated to applying the practical displays and workshops of the museum to the daily needs of intermediate...

source: Next Pittsburgh

A.I. and robotics will create almost 60 million more jobs than they destroy by 2022, report says

Machines will overtake humans in terms of performing more tasks at the workplace by 2025 — but there could still be 58 million net new jobs created in the next five years, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said in...

source: CNBC

The Future of War

This is one of those moments when technology is moving so fast that the old, settled ways of fighting wars are rapidly being overturned. And nobody knows what, exactly, will follow. ♦ The fall edition of Foreign Policy looks at the future of war, considering the implications...

source: Foreign Policy

The Colorado River is headed for a water shortage

This year, the Colorado River Basin only received about a third of its average annual supply of snow-melt runoff. Such low runoff, coupled with continuing demand for water from cities, farmers, and ranchers, may stretch the Colorado River system beyond its breaking point....

source: The Hill

The Future of Civic Museums — A New Enlightenment

The English Civic Museums Network (ECMN) has published a new report: The Future of Civic Museums: A Think Piece. The think piece, authored by Peter Latchford of Black Radley Ltd., was commissioned to examine the particular qualities, value and importance of civic museums,...

source: Museum-ID

New Zealand Nonprofit Coworking Space Shares Space and Art

According to research conducted by the Nonprofit Centers Network, the number of mission-driven shared spaces in the US has nearly doubled since 2011. The drivers of this trend include increased administrative costs, overlapping services, and the need to foster collaborative...

source: Nonprofit Quarterly

A Decade After the Financial Crisis, Economic Confidence Rebounds in Many Countries

A decade [after the financial crisis of 2008], economies have gradually recovered and the public mood has rebounded, especially in some of the hardest-hit advanced economies, according to a spring 2018 Pew Research Center survey...

source: Pew Research Center

Most Americans say they have lost trust in the media

The results of a new Knight Foundation and Gallup poll released [last week] won’t come as a huge surprise to most journalists: Trust in the media is down. Again. A majority of those who were surveyed said they had lost trust in the media in recent years, and more than...

source: Columbia Journalism Review

Four Ways of Seeing the Future

We are halfway through the serial publication of CFM’s set of scenarios for museum planning! Bright and dark versions of the year 2040, crowdsourced from the hopes and fears of AAMers, are available on the Alliance website, and our third scenario will be released next...

source: Center for the Future of Museums

Post-Apocalyptic MoMA

This week on the CFM Blog, Calder Zwicky, Assistant Director for Teen and Community Partnerships, tells us about a recent piece of futurist role-play at the Museum of Modern Art: Adelita Husni-Bey's The Council, in which teens explored how the museum could best serve its...

source: Center for the Future of Museums

Amphibious Architecture

Elizabeth English, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo [recently organized] the International Conference on Amphibious Architecture, Design and Engineering. Unlike traditional buildings, amphibious structures are not static; they respond to floods like ships...

source: Anthropocene Magazine

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Glimpse: How Electronic Tattoos Will Change The World — And Ourselves

A small rubbery robot could save more water than any conservation campaign

Memes Have Finally Made It to the Museum

5 Years Ago, Their 5Pointz Art Was Erased. Now There's a Museum for It.

A school inside a museum? Children's Museum begins final phase of construction on museumlab.

A.I. and robotics will create almost 60 million more jobs than they destroy by 2022, report says

The Future of War

The Colorado River is headed for a water shortage

The Future of Civic Museums — A New Enlightenment

New Zealand Nonprofit Coworking Space Shares Space and Art

A Decade After the Financial Crisis, Economic Confidence Rebounds in Many Countries

Most Americans say they have lost trust in the media

Four Ways of Seeing the Future

Post-Apocalyptic MoMA

Amphibious Architecture

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