Thoughts about the 1970 Jewish Museum Technology Exhibition

In 1970, a group of technological innovators organized an exhibition called "Software." The primary organizer was Jack Burnham. The main premise of these exhibition was that it was to be an experiential exhibition that let people interact with new technology and media for the first time. As the pictures in this article show, attendees got hands-on experience with many technologies they probably had never even heard of before. At the same time, the exhibition allowed organizers and exhibitors like Karl Katz and Nicholas Negroponte to see the public's reaction to some of their projects, and to gauge the potential success of those initiatives.