With the digital representation of the whole collection, the museum can put all of it on electronic display, with the efforts of curators serving to help viewers make their own judgments about taste and importance and with the repertoire of works on actual display changing far more frequently, as the ‘permanent collection’ would no longer need to serve its standard-setting functions.
Predictor: McClintock, Robert
Prediction, in context:In 1995, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology commissioned a series of white papers on various issues related to networking technologies. The department convened the authors for a workshop in November 1995 to discuss the implications. The following statement is taken from one of the white papers, “Renewing the Progressive Contract with Posterity: On the Social Construction of Digital Learning Communities,” by Robert McClintock, the director of the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University. McClintock writes:”Most museums have had limited display space and usually owned collections much larger than what they could exhibit. Curators therefore selected and justified their decisions to show one holding while keeping others crated in the warehouse. With the digital representation of the whole collection, the museum can put all of it on electronic display, with the efforts of curators serving to help viewers make their own judgments about taste and importance and with the repertoire of works on actual display changing far more frequently, as the ‘permanent collection’ would no longer need to serve its standard-setting functions.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Medical/Professional
Name of publication: The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning
Title, headline, chapter name: Renewing the Progressive Contract with Posterity: On the Social Construction of Digital Learning Communities
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney