CHM Blog
The CHM blog showcases ideas and insights from our vibrant community in Silicon Valley and around the world. We take you behind the scenes of our programming, collections, and exhibits. Connecting the past to the present and into the future, we decode technology for everyone.
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Museum News
Introducing CHM’s Newest Trustees
Thursday, December 10, 2020
CHM is pleased to introduce five new members of its board of trustees: Andy Cunningham, Nancy Duarte, Joe Hurd, Sanjay Nair, and Ray Rothrock.
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CHM Live
Be Good, Do Well
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Rob Chesnut, Airbnb’s former chief ethics officer, provides guidance for people and companies who want to practice ethical decision-making, or, "intentional integrity."
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CHM Live
The People Machine
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Harvard historian Jill Lepore explores the Simulmatics Corporation's efforts to predict human behavior in the 1950s and '60s and the imprint it left on today's world.
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CHM Live
Building a Better Hype Machine: How We Can Achieve the Promise of Social Media
Monday, November 23, 2020
MIT's Sinan Aral describes how we can achieve the promise and avoid the perils of social media through money, code, norms, and laws.
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CHM Live
Heroes, Communities, and the Politics of Innovation
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
If we turn away from a focus on the heroic figure and, rather, look at communities as the real authors of developments in technology and science then the concordance with historical realities becomes smooth.
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CHM Live
The Next Moonshot … Earth
Thursday, October 22, 2020
How can the first moonshot in 1969, and all we’ve learned since, help us apply what works and avoid what doesn’t to foster innovations that create a better future?
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Guest Blog
Unprecedented: Gen Z’s Right to Vote
Friday, October 16, 2020
Gen Z first-time voters share their thoughts and concerns about elections in today's digital world.
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CHM Live
Decoding the Election: Algorithms, AI, and Your Vote
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Technology has been intertwined with US presidential elections from the start. CHM turned to three experts to explore how advances in AI and voter targeting over the last four years could change the 2020 election, and beyond.
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Guest Blog
Hotspots and Have-Nots: Revisiting the Digital Divide
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Take a right off the main highway, down a rutted dirt road and drive eight miles to the two-bedroom trailer where Myra Nez grew up. Nez is the Navajo woman who as a 13-year-old won an Apple iMac in 2000. But her home didn't have internet service... or running water.
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From the Collection
“Political Guru” or “Political Bystander”? Vote America: Your 1996 Field Guide to Electing A President
Friday, September 4, 2020
Today election news, from candidate tweets to campaign trail happenings, is widespread across various media, delivered personally to us via the internet on our device of choice. But in 1996, getting election news other than through traditional media, like television, radio, and newspapers, was a novel idea.