Connections Museum

How has technological infrastructure changed our experience of space and time? How much of technology’s “magic” comes from human labor behind the scenes? Find out at…

The Connections Museum
Open Sundays, 10 am – 3 pm
$10 suggested donation (pay what you can)

The Connections Museum offers excellent guided tours hosted by engineers and telephone enthusiasts. It is the site of a former telephone exchange building which now functions partly as a data exchange for local Internet infrastructure. You can see a real telephone switchboard demonstration and learn about the operators and technicians who made phone calls work behind the scenes.

For 25 points, take a selfie from your visit and write a 250-word reflection. Consider how changing infrastructure alters our experience of technology, and how certain technologies hide their own operations.

Pairs well with: lessons on tool vs. machine, the “device paradigm”