Thesis Response 2

Museums 2.0 - Cassie Bales

Link: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1683194/ais_classes/portfolio_pres/12fa/thesis/bales_cassie_thesis.pdf

Cassie's thesis covers how the internet has allowed millions of people to connect to museums around the world. Museums have taken a long time to adopt information technology, but finally they are catching up with the use of the internet. Cassie covers in her paper three ways museums are using the internet to collect, preserve, and display artifacts for the public using websites, virtual museums, and virtual exhibits.

The internet has allowed access for millions of people to many museums around the world. For all the people who don't have the means to travel far distances to visit museums the internet has brought the museums to them. Now people can easily go online and get information on the museum through their website, and in cases where virtual museums and exhibits are available the people can have a virtual tour of the museum right from their computers. This technology has made it possible for people to visit places that are far away right from their computer.

I feel that the internet has made it possible for people to travel much less than in the past. Whether it's museums or shopping malls people now have access to many different places online. Where in the past people had to actually leave their homes and travel to view or purchase things, now they can do all of it right in their chairs. I agree this has made it more convenient for people to visit places they wouldn't have been able to visit before. But in some ways I feel like we are headed in the direction humanity ended up in Wall-E.