I’m always rather proud when Bletchley Park gets a mention; a weird hybrid pride drawn from wartime endeavour and pioneering computing.
With that in mind, that Bletchley Park is to receive lottery funding to help preserve it for future generations should make me happy but, instead, it made me rather sad. Wouldn’t it be more in the spirit of Bletchley and early computing to invest the funding (the overall target is £10 million) in new research and development, or a bursary for technology learning? It could even be based on the park, which is surely more apt than it being a wedding venue?
Somehow Bletchley being a museum smacks of already having had our moment of computing and preserving it for fear of never having another.
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Museum culture
Posted by Steve Loynes September 30 2009 08:23am