I had my mail off last week so I don't know if anyone has pointed out an article
in the recent e-journal TidBITS (#291/21-Aug-95)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/TidBITS/issues/TidBITS-291.html#s4
The article is called _Ontological Breakdown, or, Pretending to be a Help
System_, by a Berkeley economics professor Brad De Long. The article is
based on experience at the University of California Museum of Paleontology,
both in person and on line, and the resulting uncertainity over which is
the "real" museum.
"There have long been speculations about how the electronic shadows made
possible by the computer and telecommunications revolutions will acquire
the intensity of effect, the immediacy, the complexity and the depth to
become - in a certain sense - real."
Jim Swanson
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Banff,Alberta
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