By Futurist Thomas Frey
When electricity transformed civilization in the late 1800s, we built science museums to help people understand it. When flight became possible, we built aviation museums. When space exploration began, we built planetariums and space centers. These weren’t just tourist attractions—they were cultural infrastructure that helped society understand, embrace, and participate in transformative technologies.
Now we’re living through changes more rapid and profound than anything in history—AI, robotics, autonomous systems, quantum computing, synthetic biology. Technologies that will reshape every aspect of human civilization within decades.
And we have almost no cultural institutions helping people understand them.
Continue reading… “The Cultural Infrastructure Gap: Why We Need Museums for the AI Age”
