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Google’s Eric Schmidt Extols The Importance Of Science Museums

Tonight in front of an influential audience at our Imax theatre, Eric Schmidt discussed the importance of Science Museums.

Eric Schmidt at the Science Museum talking about Why Science Matters

 

Tonight in front of an influential audience at our Imax theatre, Eric Schmidt discussed the importance of Science Museums.

Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt described the extraordinarily important role of museums in inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers.  Eric Schmidt spoke passionately about why science matters “Science illuminates the world and gives us the building blocks to transform our lives. The fundamental advances in human industry – from building ships to building genomes, from spinning jennies to spinning quarks – have a foundation in science.”

Expanding on why he had chosen to make his follow up to last year’s MacTaggart Lecture at the Science Museum in London, Schmidt said that “Museums do more than entertain and teach, they also open peoples eyes to career opportunities. The Museum we’re in today is a great illustration… It is a place to cherish, but more importantly a place to inspire. This is a remarkable venue, and I say that as someone who has visited a lot of museums.”

“It is full of memories of so many inventions – indeed, so many British inventions…Today nearly 3 million people pass through its doors each year, two-thirds in groups with children.”

When it comes to computer literacy, he listed a range of initiatives that have emerged since his MacTaggart lecture, including a report produced by NESTA and the Science Museum on the remarkable legacy of the BBC Micro project’s legacy and lessons for today.

Mr Schmidt touched on two projects opening at the Science Museum which Google are supporting. The first is a new biographical exhibition about Alan Turing’s life and legacy opening on June 20th.  The second project is the development of a new exhibition about modern communications. The Gallery opens in 2014 and brings to life moments when the world changed dramatically through the invention of technologies such as the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable; the creation of the first digital electronic computer; the development of mobile communications and the advent of the World Wide Web.

 

2 comments on “Google’s Eric Schmidt Extols The Importance Of Science Museums

  1. The Science Museum should really video-stream such events and promote a video archive – its riches are not just in inert objects and dead scientists but in living experts, its own and its guests.

    should be a beacon

    obvious way of reaching wide and diverse audiences

    come on SI

    Dominic

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