1. Amit Sood tells us that most of the time, the world's population is living without real access to arts and culture. And how will technology change this fact?   What is your comment?  
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2. Sood says Google's art archive is available right now on our mobile phones, on our laptops.  Did you know this?  

3. Did you know there are portals to Google Arts and Culture from famous museums and historical sites on Google Maps? 
https://www.google.gr/maps/@48.8043146,2.120538,2a,75y,102.01h,75.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-LSHZciFdo5deGadf-hI5g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
And there is a new feature for some famous historic places called Google Explore.
https://www.google.gr/maps/@48.8043146,2.120538,2a,75y,102.01h,75.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-LSHZciFdo5deGadf-hI5g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

4. Users of this app called Google Art Project can view the works of art in extremely high-definition detail.  How significant is this capability?  Who can benefit from it?

5. Intended for a world audience, the content has "amazing diversity" he says.  What's your reaction?
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/search?q=Russian%20

6. By the way, my favorite painting in the museum in my city of Omaha is Russian:
https://www.joslyn.org/collections-and-exhibitions/permanent-collections/european/konstantin-makovsky-russian-beauty-and-cat/
Do you have a favorite?

7. A wide variety of museums and institutions are represented in the collection.  Comment about the accessibility to these organizations which is now possible.

8. Google Art Project is much more than a virtual museum.  In what ways?

9. Speaking of virtual museums, do you think they will replace conventional museums in the future?

10. What are the pros and the cons of conventional museums.  The video below demonstrates one of the cons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQSe1GUy4WA​

11. What are the "connections" among works of art that Sood refers to and about which his curator friend talked with him?

12. What are the clusters Soot talks about?  

13.  Clusters make our experience interactive and creative.  What kind of cluster would you create?

14. What did you think of the portrait matcher?