On the face of it, Once Upon A Try seems like a regular online exhibition about scientific innovation and discoveries. Hailed as the largest online exhibition by Google Arts & Culture, Once Upon A Try brings over 400 interactive exhibitions and 200,000 artefacts from 127 collections to your fingertips. The exhibits, divided into segments such as Ideas That Changed The World and The Beginning of Voyages, don’t confine themselves to pure science, and look instead at innovation across disciplines ranging from architecture to food. An early Indian computerThere is a section, for instance, on the life and times of Indian film-maker V. Shantaram which also looks at innovation in cinema. Simon Rein, programme manager of Google Arts & Culture, however, says, “We tend to take innovation for granted, without appreciating the complexity of the process.

Source: Mint April 20, 2019 07:41 UTC