<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 22, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Grady Booch wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><font size="2" face="sans-serif">who are out there fiercely collecting artifacts before they turn into dust. let us sort out how we present them along the way, for frankly, this we are breaking new ground: how does one present, how does one classify, how does one tell the story, how does one reveal the inner beauty of these objects that spring from human cognition and have no material manifestation other than their operation and some lines of code?</font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></span></blockquote><br></div><div>EAF: Grady has hit the nail on the head with those words.</div><div><br></div><div>It is an historical "opportunity" that the CHM has come to grasp only a little</div><div>(as spelled out by Len Shustek in his message. ) Why?</div><div><br></div><div>1) It is difficult for a museum to display things "that have no material manifestation")(NMM). This</div><div>requires a great deal of invention and  hard work.  </div><div><br></div><div>2) the museum itself has a history and a collecting tradition (collection bias?) toward</div><div>the objects WITH material manifestation (MM). But as things become commoditized and</div><div>cloud-ified, the CHM will run out of interesting MMs to collect and will have to focus on the NMMs</div><div>of the information revolution.</div><div><br></div><div>My counsel is patience, coupled with an effort to to help the museum solve (1) above.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Ed Feigenbaum</div><br></body></html>