Day 11: The Telecommunications Museum- Technology

The other part of the museum. 

      For today, we decided to go on a nice tour of a technology museum. We got a late start on the morning and had a late breakfast in the hotel. We got in the cab and were on our way. While on our way we saw the fog rolling over the mountains, enjoying the slight breeze that rolled in with the windows down.
      It took 50 minutes to get there and it was just opening when we walked in. We got in for free and met our tour guide, Pedro. The tour guide took us through the museum, walking through a timeline of human communication, looking at the past, present and future.

Part of the timeline. 

     The tour guide talked to us about the history of the company, while he pointed out the interesting technical innovations,such as telephones and computers, that occurred while we continued along the timeline.  We witnessed what human technology looked like before telephones, after telephones, with telephones, and what technology may look like in the future. After a while, we all got a little hungry, so we decided to go have lunch across the street at Botequim dos Amigos.
   After lunch we went back into the museum and continued our tour. Getting to try out some cool technology and see how fast the innovation of our time has changed into a time of technology.
    As the tour kept going, we moved from the past and the present, into the future of technology. Most of the future technology was shown on a virtual timeline, like the one below, to show what the future of technology may hold for the world.

A virtual timeline. 

    At the end of the tour we got to look at some of the projects that are on display that were chosen by a special commission. The commission chooses the projects based on the goals and criteria specifically made for this museum. Some of these programs incorporated in this museum include Nave (Advanced Educational Center). This program was developed for the research and the spread of new educational methods. The museum and the programs that go along with it were built to show the potential of  the communication and information technologies in the school and professional atmosphere.
     After finishing our tour, we decided to go back to the hotel and start packing for the flight back tomorrow. It was a nice, light day to finish off our stay in Brazil.