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In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

  
  Museums for the New Millennium: Proceedings
Bran believes asking whether or not we should be exploring the use of this or that technology is, in fact, probably the wrong question, and he promised to help us get refocused.
FERREN: I think there is a lot more than affect, and, incidentally, a lot of museums I go to depend upon affect as a significant part of their experience, and I don't think that is necessarily bad.
FERREN: Yes, but I think what he is doing is creating a new brand on the Web, meaning he is coming with his professional point of view, irrespective of his background, and he is creating an institution.
museumstudies.si.edu /millennium/proceed8.htm   (16071 words)

  
 Technology Predictions
The advances in user interfaces that we have promised for years will finally be realized in the next decade - acceptable speech input and output, gesture recognition, retinal projection, convincing artificial intelligence.
From Bran Ferren of Walt Disney Imagineering (in The New York Times Magazine): The technology needed for an early Internet-connection implant is no more than 25 years off.
Imagine that you could understand any language, remember every joke, solve any equation, get the latest news, balance your checkbook, communicate with others, and have near-instant access to any book ever published, without ever having to leave the privacy of yourself.
www.washington.edu /alumni/columns/june98/technology.html   (1660 words)

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