I enjoyed your script very much.. thanks!!
Adrienne

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> From:         Antony F Anderson[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Museum discussion list
> Sent:         Wednesday, 11 March 1998 12:52 PM
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> Subject:      Re: Museums and the 21st Century
>
> > Question:  "What is the single most important tool for museums in
> the
> > 21st century?"
>
> An "anti-millenium-bug" tool-kit, ready for use from start of the
> Museum New Year's Eve Party on December 31st 1999, that will enable a
> painless transfer into the 21st Century. This will include the
> following:
>
> 1 candle and a box of matches to enable the Museum Director to find
> his/her way to the emergency generator in the basement and switch it
> on when the millenium high voltage power system bug causes a power
> failure at midnight precisely.
>
> 1 large bottle of whisky to give the Museum Director an enhanced sense
> of mission to venture  into the basement with lit candle in order  to
> find the emergency generator.
>
> 1 large fire extinguisher and torch to be carried by the curator as
> back-up, in the event that Museum director's basement mission is
> aborted by wall of flame resulting from candle-induced ignition of
> spilt whisky.
>
> 1 flint axe to enable Museum Security to rescue staff and museum
> sponsors trapped behind electrically non-functioning lift doors and
> before they are roasted by above-mentioned wall of flame rising
> through lift shaft.
>
> 1 set of ostrich shell containers, to enable balance of whisky, if not
> combusted, to be distributed later to calm the nerves of rescued
> staff, disoriented sponsors and an exhausted Museum Security Officer.
>
> 1 set of Napier's Bones or a large circular slide rule, paper, pens,
> ink, pencils and india rubber to enable calculations vital to the well
> being of the museum to be carried out by the Museum Accountant during
> the early part of the 21st century while museum computer network is
> convalescing from an attack of millenium flu.
>
> 1 wind up gramophone and set of 78 RPM records to provide simulated
> surround sound and multi-media replacement therapy for agitated staff
> and disoriented visitors deprived of normal diet of virtual reality.
>
> 1large hoard of ancient coins, to be pressed into service as medium of
> exchange for the duration of the accompanying millenium-bug-induced
> credit card crisis.
>
> Heliograph and set of carrier pigeons to replace external fax and
> e-mail.
>
> Set of tom-toms with operating manuals and corporate-jungle-trained
> operators to replace internal digital communications network and to
> ensure the maintenance of staff discipline at all times.
>
> Other other items in toolkit to be left to the imagination......most
> will be found in the stores of a museum near you.
>
> Respond to the needs and challenges of the 21st century by setting up
> your communal wax taper, sundial and candle clock making facility now,
> before double digital death zeros in and destroys twentieth century
> time.
>
> Antony Anderson
> http://museum-security.org/denney/index.htm
>