Yet I think as one's involvement with electronic media increases, the first-hand encounter with original works of art will serve as a counterbalance. The design of the museum's original building on Michigan Avenue was as a temple of art. You entered and left behind the dirt and woe of the city. It was a common view of what a museum should be a century and more ago. The struggle between that view and one more profane has continued to this day, not least among artists and architects.
Piano is certainly aware of it.
Today a successful museum building also has to welcome great numbers of people to the experience. Gehry's baroque new bandshell up the way in Millennium Park is one attempt to do that with music. Piano's lighter, more classical addition to the institute represents the attempt with art. From renderings, each works beautifully off the other. Although it's much too early to say, I suspect Piano will get us there for more of the right reasons.