Finalists for the World Trade Center memorial were presented with new technology. “With the chance to view the designs in this dynamic, strikingly ‘cinematic’ way, the public was given its first glimpse of a revolution that has been under way for the past few years. Indeed, the memorial competition itself accelerated that revolution, harnessing the explosion in broadband Internet access to allow millions of people around the world to view the animated presentations, more or less at once — something that was never before possible.”