Track 8

Track 08

Curator: Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Museum of Technology. We’ll be taking a tour around the three floors, which will last approximately one hour and then after that you’ll be able to explore the museum on your own. Now, let’s begin with The Internet: Past, Present and Future on the first floor. By this Friday the exhibition will have been open for two weeks, it started on July 10th, and it’ll continue for three more weeks so make sure you see it today otherwise it’ll probably have finished by the time you think about coming back! The final day of the exhibition is 31st July. The most interesting part of this section of the museum is about the Internet of the future. As you walk around you’ll see some large 3D touch screens which show how we ‘ll probably be using computers in about five years. These screens are definitely the best part of the display and something you must see.

Moving on to the third floor, the exhibition here is all about communicating via the Internet and it’s called Social Networking. This exhibition is open throughout August from 1st to 30th. There is a fascinating part of the exhibition which is really worth seeing as it compares mobile phone and Internet usage and shows how we’ll be using social networking in the future. According to some scientists, by the middle of this century we will have been participating in communication through social networking so much that mobile phones will have become obsolete! Make sure you take a look at the world digital map which shows this visually, as it’s quite amazing.

The final exhibition is opening on the fourth floor and is dedicated to small handheld devices that companies will have introduced into our shops by the end of next year. In fact you may have already seen some of them being advertised on TV. The name of this section is ‘Portable Devices of the 21st Century’ and it’s starting tomorrow on July 22nd and will be open until August 20th. This part of the museum is about sixth sense technology. This technology will have been included in all portable devices like mobile phones and music players within three years or so. It also shows us examples of satellite tracking systems which we will be using to help us plan our daily lives. These two sections are fascinating and I recommend you spend some time viewing both.

So, let’s start the tour. If you could all follow me…