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Descriptions of the Multi-media Stations at The Once and Future Web.
The Telegraph topics:
Samuel F. B. Morse and the Telegraphic Network
Working the Line
Wired Society: Telegraphic Culture
The Long Goodbye: The Demise of Telegraphy
Telegraph Office
The Internet topics:
Air Defense and Computer Network
The Desktop Revolution
A New Medium
Controlling Information: Property and Privacy in the Internet Age
A Future of Freedom?
The Revolution in Medical Information
The Broad Band Future
Digitize This!
About Faces
Interactive Interview With Donna Cox
Station 1. Samuel F. B. Morse and the Telegraphic Network deals with the technology innovators of the 19th century, how the telegraph worked, and the importance of the network built with telegraph lines.
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Station 2. Air Defense and Computer Network describes the evolution of networking technology, three key innovators in the creation of the Internet, and an animation of how the networking technology has evolved.
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Station 3. The Desktop Revolution takes the journey from 1985 to the 1990s when the Internet was transformed from a tool for elite scientists to a tool for everyone.
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Station 4. Working the Line brings to life the operators, the innovators, and the culture of the telegraph industry. Like today's Internet, the telegraph wove together the lives of entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, and the public.
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Station 5. A New Medium explores how digitization and networking combine to create the multi-medium known as the Internet. This station also demonstrates how the Internet changes the way we think of communication and how we relate to music, art, and literature.
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Station 6. Controlling Information: Property and Privacy in the Internet Age brings to the forefront the debate about whether and how to control digital information.
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Station 7. Wired Society: Telegraphic Culture brings to life the perceptions about the telegraph through popular songs and moving pictures.
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Station 8. A Future of Freedom? challenges viewers to think about the implications of the Internet—an untamed territory of the intellect and information—in a free society.
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Station 9. The Long Goodbye: The Demise of Telegraphy tells the story of the rise and fall of the revolutionary invention of the 19th century, the telegraph. This historical perspective resonates with our exploration of today's revolutionary communications technology, the Internet.
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Station 10. The Revolution in Medical Information demonstrates how the Internet has radically expanded access to medical information by healthcare professionals and the general public. The Internet enables ordinary people to become more educated health care consumers.
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Station 11. The Broad Band Future invites viewers to glimpse a future when telemedicine is an integral part of health care, transforming the practice of medicine.
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Telegraph Office recreates the sounds and the workings of the telegraph. Visitors can send a message in Morse code, which is sent with a web link that translates the Morse coded message into English.
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Digitize This! helps visitors understand the digitization process through digitizing their own images, which can be manipulated and transmitted instantly by email.
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About Faces is a touch-sensitive program that allows viewers to explore the head from a variety of perspectives. This program is built with the Visible Humans' vast anatomical database, which contains tens of thousands of digitized images from cross-sections of the human body.
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Interactive Interview with Donna Cox creates an interactive interview between a visitor and Professor Donna Cox, a pioneer in the world of digital art and science. This hands-on experience demonstrates the intersection of art and science, while blurring the line between the natural and the artificial that digitization and networking creates.
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Exhibition and Library Hours
from Labor Day to Memorial Day:
Mon-Wed, and Fri:
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Thurs: 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Sat: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Sun: Closed
Summer hours
from Memorial Day to Labor Day:
Mon - Fri: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sat: 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Sun: Closed
The Library is closed for Federal holidays and the Saturday preceding a Monday holiday. Check the Library's holiday schedule.
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