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Well, I would agree that technology is advancing to the
point where simulations of unavailable experiences will soon
be feasible. As a matter of fact, the entertainment industry
is attending to these advances quite closely, and are
creating amusement park/arcades with these attractions as we
speak. I think they are being dubbed "realies" as opposed to
movies. I guess its fine, and I have no doubt that museums
will adopt this technology as it becomes practicable.
I remain unconvinced by what I have read here that these
experiences will have the depth of impact of actual objects.
I'm sure that they will be popular, perhaps because they
require so little of the participant. Going to museums will
in fact be more like going to the movies, where meanings are
created out of sight, and artifice is central to the
presentation. I personally, and this is a strictly personal
reaction, find that tremendously sad.
Eric Siegel
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