Computers are the defining technology of our time. Unlike other machines that are designed to carry out a specialised task, the computer is a general-purpose device. It is a universal machine.

This exhibition looks at the computer and seeks to understand what it is, what it can do, why it was developed, and how it works.

Although technologies have changed dramatically this century, what of people’s values, beliefs, hopes and fears in relation to these technologies?

Cyberworlds questions the relationship between people and computers, and their impact on our lives. Are our concerns today so very different from those of a hundred years ago?
Cyberworlds has been conceived as an evolving exhibition that showcases advances, applications and issues in information technology as they arise.

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Cyberworlds: computers and connections
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