Editing Curator (section)

== Technology curators ==
Technology curators are people who are able to disentangle the science and logic of a particular technology and apply it to real-world situations and society, whether it is for social change, commercial advantage, or other purposes. The first U.K. ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' Conference had a test lab, where an independent curator selected technology that showcased radical technology advancements and their impact on society, such as the ability to design and [[3D printing|"print"]] physical objects using [[3D printer]]s (such as a fully working violin) or the ability to model and represent accurate interactive medical and molecular models in stereoscopic 3D.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wiredevent.co.uk/wired/agenda |title=Archived copy |access-date=May 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114040426/http://www.wiredevent.co.uk/wired/agenda |archive-date=January 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

As US museums have become increasingly more digitized, curators find themselves constructing narratives in both the material and digital worlds. Historian Elaine Gurian has called for museums in which "visitors could comfortably search for answers to their own questions regardless of the importance placed on such questions by others". This would change the role of curator from teacher to "facilitator and assistor".<ref>{{cite book|last=Clough|first=Wayne|url=http://www.si.edu/content/gwc/BestofBothWorldsSmithsonian.pdf|title=Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries and Achieves in the Digital Age|date=2013|publisher=[[The Smithsonian Institution]]|page=30}}</ref> In this sense, the role of curator in the United States is precarious, as digital and interactive exhibits often allow members of the public to become their own curators, and to choose their own information. Citizens are then able to educate themselves on the specific subject they are interested in, rather than spending time listening to information they have no desire to learn.