He said Pointfive's work, which will be a kiosk based on a black box flight recorder, will "work as both a meeting and information point and an experiential artwork exploring the passage of time".
Given the vulnerability of paper and print before the arrival of the internet, it is not surprising that those who valued the transmission of information over time included oral or experiential transmission of skills in all kinds of hands-on, practical settings among the sources of lasting knowledge to be treasured.