The wanted to show the life and death impact of software on the world, and so it chose to illustrate that with a display dedicated to automobile crash testing.
On Saturday, the museum opened a new exhibition to the public: “Make Software: Change the World!” The exhibition’s goal is to show how software engineers, programmers, and other innovators have changed the world with software. It’s a $7 million exhibit designed for children ages 10 and up.
The whole exhibit was about five years in the making, and it was undertaken because the museum’s main exhibit, Revolution, was really mostly about hardware, said Kirsten Tashev, vice president of collections & exhibitions at the museum, in an interview with VentureBeat. The crash test is just one part of the “life and death” section of the Make Software exhibition.
In the exhibit, you can see the mesh of polygons in the computer simulation. Back in 1994, there…