Please understand that I am a technoid and a biologist. And I earn my living by making the living world accessible and comprehensible (I hope) to non-professional nature enthusiasts seeking a nature experience that involves not only their minds but their senses. Much as I love working with computers (almost as much as I love the snakes I care for at work), they do have their limitations. While they're well suited to engage and stimulate the intellect they are inferior to the "real" experience when it comes to doing the same for the senses. Smell, taste and touch are excluded from the virtual world. At the nature center where I work we have exhibits which are designed to engage *all* of the senses. And that is why I'm not worried that the public is going to stop coming to visit us any time soon. Rhea Tannenbaum Exhibits Coordinator Gumbo Limbo Nature Center Boca Raton, FL [log in to unmask] ____ RheaT