{"id":3417,"date":"2016-12-04T10:46:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T09:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2016-12-04T10:46:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T09:46:27","slug":"technological-museums-quest-1-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/2016\/12\/04\/technological-museums-quest-1-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Technological Museums Quest | 1. Getting started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-fr\">D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>. Pour le confort de l\u2019utilisateur, le contenu est affich\u00e9 ci-dessous dans une autre langue. Vous pouvez cliquer le lien pour changer de langue active.<\/p><p>[et_pb_section bb_built=\u00a0\u00bb1&Prime;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\u00a0\u00bb4_4&Prime;][et_pb_text]<\/p>\n<h3>Visiting the past of the future<\/h3>\n<p>First off, here&rsquo;s how <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/?s=Peter+Thiel\">Peter Thiel<\/a> explains the concept of <em>future<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What makes the future distinctive and important isn\u2019t that it hasn\u2019t happened yet, but rather that it will be a time when the world looks different from today. In this sense, if nothing about our society changes for the next 100 years, then the future is over 100 years away. If things change radically in the next decade, then the future is nearly at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Humans don\u2019t decide what to build by making choices from some cosmic catalog of options given in advance; instead, by creating new technologies, we rewrite the plan of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If we extend this idea to the past, then old technology (different from today&rsquo;s technology) measures the distance to the human past, and, more specifically, to past human rewritings of the plan of the world (non-human or post-human <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2016\/03\/26\/the-game-changer-mindset\/\">game-changers<\/a> \u00a0could still fit into originally human branches of technological development).<\/p>\n<p>The fundamental reason behind technological museums is not to store knowledge <em>per se<\/em>. If it were just about storage, museum designers would handle the matter quite differently.<\/p>\n<p>The reason technological museums exist is to help build great technological narratives. That is the fundamental human need they satisfy. It&rsquo;s not just about utilitarian knowledge; it&rsquo;s also about aesthetics, rationalized fantasies where the scientific spirit achieves designs conceived by our aesthetic faculties.<\/p>\n<h3>At Presans, we have two quick solutions when we need to visit the past of the future<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3452 alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/presans-organization-hacker-schuiten-1.png\" alt=\"presans-organization-hacker-schuiten\" width=\"419\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/presans-organization-hacker-schuiten-1.png 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/presans-organization-hacker-schuiten-1-300x221.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/presans-organization-hacker-schuiten-1-768x564.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/presans-organization-hacker-schuiten-1-480x353.png 480w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/presans-organization-hacker-schuiten-1-560x412.png 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/>The geographically nearby\u00a0solution is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts-et-metiers.net\/\"><em>Mus\u00e9e des Arts et M\u00e9tiers<\/em><\/a>, 40 meters away from our offices.<\/p>\n<p>Some preliminary observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Umberto Eco decided to feature this museum in his novel <em>Foucault&rsquo;s Pendulum<\/em>. So it really seems this is what happens when you build a Technology Museum: you get a good story (perhaps it&rsquo;s not that simple, let&rsquo;s see what happens in the next episode&#8230;).<\/li>\n<li>There is a definite steampunk connection via comic artist Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten who seems to be involved in all kinds of projects related to the museum, not least the design of the homonymous metro station.<\/li>\n<li>The museum is part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/remut.fr\/\">French network of Technology Museums<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Museum is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts-et-metiers.net\/musee\/geopolitique-du-musee-2016\">actively thinking<\/a>\u00a0about the question of its own purpose in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Solution number two: We call one of our Presans Fellows. Empirical data proves conclusively that nothing beats this approach when it comes to good stories about technology and innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Our Fellows are awesome and we want to get the word out. If you&rsquo;re an industrial game-changer, you need them (who doesn&rsquo;t need a smart sparring partner?).<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: Jacques Schmitt&rsquo;s classic history of windsurfing, easily <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/2015\/09\/22\/francais-histoire-de-la-planche-a-voile\/\">the most EPIC article of all time on this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This fine demonstration of Fellow power\u00a0is currently only available in French. Give this article 100\u00a0organic retweets adding &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23PresansFellowPowerSaysHi&amp;src=typd\">#PresansFellowPowerSaysHi<\/a> @ArtsetMetiers&rsquo; and we&rsquo;ll get this outstanding piece\u00a0translated by all means necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Next: we take our pro-tech-museum attitude to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_cta _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.2.1&Prime; title=\u00a0\u00bbNEED A QUICK ANSWER TO YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL QUESTION ?\u00a0\u00bb button_text=\u00a0\u00bbGIVE IT A TRY\u00a0\u00bb button_url=\u00a0\u00bbhttps:\/\/presans.com\/sofia\/conciergerie\/ask\u00a0\u00bb url_new_window=\u00a0\u00bbon\u00a0\u00bb background_image=\u00a0\u00bb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Blockchain-Technology-Cryptography-Network-Business-3418742.jpg\u00a0\u00bb header_font=\u00a0\u00bb|700||on|||||\u00a0\u00bb body_font=\u00a0\u00bb|800|||||||\u00a0\u00bb custom_button=\u00a0\u00bbon\u00a0\u00bb button_text_size=\u00a0\u00bb17&Prime; button_icon=\u00a0\u00bb%%40%%\u00a0\u00bb button_bg_color=\u00a0\u00bb#ffffff\u00a0\u00bb button_text_color=\u00a0\u00bb#182954&Prime; button_border_color=\u00a0\u00bb#ffffff\u00a0\u00bb button_font=\u00a0\u00bb|800||on|||||\u00a0\u00bb header_font_size=\u00a0\u00bb25&Prime; custom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb|60px||60px\u00a0\u00bb saved_tabs=\u00a0\u00bball\u00a0\u00bb global_module=\u00a0\u00bb6635&Prime;]<\/p>\n<p>The Conciergerie platform sets up your call appointment with a Presans-vetted international expert within few days<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_cta][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en English. Pour le confort de l\u2019utilisateur, le contenu est affich\u00e9 ci-dessous dans une autre langue. Vous pouvez cliquer le lien pour changer de langue active.<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Visiting the past of the future First off, here&rsquo;s how Peter Thiel explains the concept of future: What makes the future distinctive and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<h3>Visiting the past of the future<\/h3><p>First off, here's how <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/?s=Peter+Thiel\">Peter Thiel<\/a> explains the concept of <em>future<\/em>:<\/p><blockquote><p>What makes the future distinctive and important isn\u2019t that it hasn\u2019t happened yet, but rather that it will be a time when the world looks different from today. In this sense, if nothing about our society changes for the next 100 years, then the future is over 100 years away. If things change radically in the next decade, then the future is nearly at hand.<\/p><p>Humans don\u2019t decide what to build by making choices from some cosmic catalog of options given in advance; instead, by creating new technologies, we rewrite the plan of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>If we extend this idea to the past, then old technology (different from today's technology) measures the distance to the human past, and, more specifically, to past human rewritings of the plan of the world (non-human or post-human <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/en\/2016\/03\/26\/the-game-changer-mindset\/\">game-changers<\/a> \u00a0could still fit into originally human branches of technological development).<\/p><p>The fundamental reason behind technological museums is not to store knowledge <em>per se<\/em>. If it were just about storage, museum designers would handle the matter quite differently.<\/p><p>The reason technological museums exist is to help build great technological narratives. That is the fundamental human need they satisfy. It's not just about utilitarian knowledge; it's also about aesthetics, rationalized fantasies where the scientific spirit achieves designs conceived by our aesthetic faculties.<\/p><h3>At Presans, we have two quick solutions when we need to visit the past of the future<\/h3><p><img class=\" wp-image-3452 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/open-organization.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/presans-organization-hacker-schuiten-1.png\" alt=\"presans-organization-hacker-schuiten\" width=\"419\" height=\"308\" \/>The geographically nearby\u00a0solution is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts-et-metiers.net\/\"><em>Mus\u00e9e des Arts et M\u00e9tiers<\/em><\/a>, 40 meters away from our offices.<\/p><p>Some preliminary observations:<\/p><ul><li>Umberto Eco decided to feature this museum in his novel <em>Foucault's Pendulum<\/em>. So it really seems this is what happens when you build a Technology Museum: you get a good story (perhaps it's not that simple, let's see what happens in the next episode...).<\/li><li>There is a definite steampunk connection via comic artist Fran\u00e7ois Schuiten who seems to be involved in all kinds of projects related to the museum, not least the design of the homonymous metro station.<\/li><li>The museum is part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/remut.fr\/\">French network of Technology Museums<\/a>.<\/li><li>The Museum is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts-et-metiers.net\/musee\/geopolitique-du-musee-2016\">actively thinking<\/a>\u00a0about the question of its own purpose in the world.<\/li><\/ul><p>Solution number two: We call one of our Presans Fellows. Empirical data proves conclusively that nothing beats this approach when it comes to good stories about technology and innovation.<\/p><p>Our Fellows are awesome and we want to get the word out. If you're an industrial game-changer, you need them (who doesn't need a smart sparring partner?).<\/p><p>Case in point: Jacques Schmitt's classic history of windsurfing, easily <a href=\"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/2015\/09\/22\/francais-histoire-de-la-planche-a-voile\/\">the most EPIC article of all time on this blog<\/a>.<\/p><p>This fine demonstration of Fellow power\u00a0is currently only available in French. Give this article 100\u00a0organic retweets adding '<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23PresansFellowPowerSaysHi&amp;src=typd\">#PresansFellowPowerSaysHi<\/a> @ArtsetMetiers' and we'll get this outstanding piece\u00a0translated by all means necessary.<\/p><p>Next: we take our pro-tech-museum attitude to Germany.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[122,679,702,1152,1284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open-organization.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}