"Computer technology has transformed modern society, yet curators wishing to reflect those changes face difficult challenges in terms of both collecting and exhibiting. Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology examines how curators at the history and technology museums of the Smithsonian Institution have met these challenges."

What is computer-based technology? -- Curating the unprecedented -- Adaptive, distributed, and transmitted: the expert curation in action -- Dealing with the digital: computer technology in the collection -- "The black box conundrum": computers technology on exhibit -- Internal processing: the methods of curating computer-based technology -- The ever-evolving future