While at AAM, I took the opportunity to use the Newton guide system at the
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, and on the whole found it interesting
and perhaps moderately successful as a way to present additional
interpretive info.  However, the technology did have a tendency to distract
from the historic rooms themselves, and when I saw how my companions looked
while using them I immediately thought of tricorders on Star Trek!  Welcome
to the future, everyone.

Richard Chute ([log in to unmask])          Dir. of Corp. & Fndtn. Rel.

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