The People of Museum Tech Tell Their Stories
The history of museum technology is made up of many stories—two museum pros let museum workers tell them.
Links of the Week: September 16, 2022: The Museum Multiverse
Tech isn't helping museums' problems with alternate realities.
Links of the Week: September 9, 2022: Digital and the Museum
The digital revolution only papered over workplace problems.
September Opener: What Does Digital Mean to Museums?
Museums' issues with digital and technology reflect a greater struggle for identity and meaning.
Links of the Week: July 22, 2022: What Vibrations?
Some leaders think the Great Resignation is caused by bad vibes. It's more than that.
Links of the Week: December 17, 2021: Everything Must Go, part 3
Museum Human finishes the year with links about hybrid work, tech, NFTs, and capitalism.
Links of the Week: October 22, 2021: Tech in the Middle
The end of the calendar year often feels like the time for tech talk.
Automation and museum work, part II: the museum metaverse
Is there another reality where museum workers can leave bad org culture behind?
Links of the Week: July 22, 2021: Tech Race to Space
Are museum workers really waiting on spacefaring tech billionaires to save us?
The NFT Conundrum for Museums
Can museums resist the latest get-rich-quick-(by-making-others-poor) scheme?
Museum digital for the rest of us
Has org culture in museums caught up to everything that "digital" can mean?
Links of the Week: April 22, 2021: What's Really Tiring …
After the Minneapolis guilty verdicts earlier this week, here are some links about exhaustion.
Do Museum Workers Need a Demon of Their Own?
Is a deal with sinister forces necessary for museum people to get their work done?
Museums Must Pivot Back to People
Museums have been pivoting to post-normal workplaces. What else are they pivoting to?
Who Decides Who Gets to "Fix" Tech?
Technologists, especially some who were responsible for the rise of surveillance capitalist behemoths, are declaring technology broken and proposing humanist solutions. What could be wrong with that? And what does this mean for museums?