Posts tagged “pay phone”

Endangered Species?

Will this…

magazine-kiosk
Magazine kiosk, San Francisco, 2008

be going the way of these…

dead-phones
Dead pay phone bank, Honolulu Airport, 2008

This Engadget piece on R&D efforts at the New York Times got me thinking about what gets lost as technology changes our physical routines. How gestures like folding up a newspaper and putting it under your arm to walk down the street become obsolete.

How many aspects of our behavior are influenced by the differences between how we consume online and print-based media?

What physical routines would you be sorry to see go away?

Series

About Steve