Running into The Virtual

Posted on March 6, 2008
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Had an agreeable visit earlier this week to the Tech Virtual Museum. This is an A1 initiative. Run by the Tech Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley, the Tech Virtual Museum encourages people to design their own museum exhibits.

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“Want to create your own museum exhibit? Want to develop it with other creative thinkers and experts around the world? Want to share your exhibits with visitors in virtual and real galleries? This is the place to design and prototype exhibits online, using the web and Second Life. Start here to propose exhibit projects, share wild ideas and prototype exhibits.”

The Tech Virtual Museum strikes me as the way these facilities should be used - allowing the public the chance to be the creator and then supporting them in the creative process.

I’m not mad keen on the competitive element but what I really like is the demystification of what it takes to create.

On the other hand recently I’ve been coming to the view that the virtual world is an ecape for the rationalists among us, under attack from a rapidly changing world where rationalism is constantly under attack; but blogging too is our escape, as are social networks. They are far from where the real action lies.

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