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Who Is Being Excluded by Museums' Wholesale Adoption of Digital Technology?
A Museum for Now is a new place for thought, discussion and ideas about what a museum should be - and needs to be - in an ever-changing world.
As someone not only born before - but who studied, worked and even went out and had fun before - the public launch of the internet in April 1993, I am often surprised by the lack of push-back against digital technology, as it continues to flatten our three-dimensional experience of the world. Famously, in 2019, a blind man named Guillermo Robles successfully sued pizza chain Domino’s, for example, after he was unable to order food on the brand’s website and mobile app, despite using screen-reading software. According to BPI analysis based on Official Charts data, vinyl LP sales in the UK increased by 11.7 per cent in the first 51 weeks of 2023 to 5.9 million units, the highest annual level since 1990.
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