Opening AddressVikram Kumar @vikram_nz

“When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage, 1967

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TED Talks- Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum gallerieshttp://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_p_campbell_weaving_narratives_in_museum_galleries.html

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“When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage, 1967

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could

should

Don’t extrapolate the past to define the future

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kaumātua

Conceptually, is the future of the GLAM sectorthe kaumātua of New Zealand?

Kaumatua smoking a pipe, Taupo. Whites Aviation Ltd :Photographs.Ref: WA-12476-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://beta.natlib.govt.nz/records/22718289

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A medium affects the society in which it plays a role. Not by the content delivered through it, but by the characteristics of the medium itself.

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1. Ubiquitous

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UC CEISMIC QuakeStorieshttp://www.quakestories.govt.nz/

HITLabNZ CityViewAR (Augmented Reality)http://www.hitlabnz.org/index.php/products/cityviewar

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2. End-to-end principle, layered architecture

Intelligent Agents needMetadata, Relationships

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Source http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-3149051974

Captain James Cookon a Semantic Web

Images

Books

Events

Stories

People

Explorers

Space Shuttle

Transit ofVenus

Mt Cook

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3. Everyone can be a producer

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Source http://pinterest.com/phyllis333/good-books/

Source http://www.digitalnz.org/

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4. Openness

Deep Engagement

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Source https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/

Source http://www.thekermadecs.org/news-and-blogs/blog-vulnerable-communities Source http://www.ourfarsouth.org/

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5. Bottom-up evolution

New Areas of Collaboration

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Source http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/online/short/subject.php?course_subject=History_of_Art

Source http://www.londonartcollege.co.uk/

Source until 2013 http://tvnz.co.nz/tvnz7learninghub

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6. Global, universal

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Source http://www.webbs.co.nz/

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And yet, sometimes, the Internet is simply about communications

From the British Museum's Parthenon collectionTrue-to-life, 3D printing assembly Cosmo Wenman http://www.cosmowenman.com/

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Final Words

Are we marching backwards into the future?

What future do you want?

Use the next 2 days to fit the pieces together.

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Thank you

Vikram KumarCE, InternetNZEmail: vikram@internetnz.net.nzTwitter: @vikram_nz 23

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