(P)REVIEW
EDITOR
Alex Wright
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by continuing to gather stories, photos, and vid-
eos of experiences of 9/11 and the aftermath, and
adding these newly gathered materials to many
different exhibitions inside the museum. Visitors
will not just witness history, but participate in the
documentation and making of history through the
exhibitions.
Further, there will be an exhibit piece that will
analyze the post-9/11 world, using current events,
semantic analysis, and ongoing research to try and
define just what the post-9/11 world is. Whether
through inference, connections between keywords,
evolving thoughts on 9/11 themes, this series of
visualization and collaboration will allow visitors
in the present and future to try and define the
post-9/11 world, even as the meaning is evolving
into the future.
And finally, there will be a space for visitors to
reflect on the meaning of 9/11 within their own
personal experience. These voices and reflections
will make up a diverse and dynamic display that
will evolve as time moves forward, giving the
museum a historic record of the changing meaning
of 9/11 over time.

Alex Wright is the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. He has led user experience design initiatives for the New York Times, Yahoo!, Microsoft, IBM, Harvard University, and the Long Now Foundation, among others. His writing has appeared in Salon.com, the Christian Science

Monitor, Harvard Magazine, and other publications. He writes regularly about technology and design at http://www.alexwright.org.

January + February 2010

DOI: 10.1145/1649475.1649480
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