{"id":269,"date":"2010-09-13T20:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T20:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2010-09-23T22:25:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T22:25:41","slug":"decline-of-physical-mashup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Decline of Physical Mashup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is this screen in St. Pancras station:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0058.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0058-300x199.png\" alt=\"Sky News Screen at St. Pancras\" title=\"IMG_0058\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0058-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0058.png 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(indeed, there are lots of these around at stations). When I first saw these screens, they offered a rolling news service, alternating periods of news display with periods of advertising. I&#8217;d often watch them for a while, a quick chance to catch up on news and weather whilst waiting for a train.<\/p>\n<p>I rather liked the way that this mashed up online information with the physical world. It certainly felt futuristic\u2014like Bladerunner, but in a good way! This idea of mashing up the physical with the online is rather appealing, and whilst I wouldn&#8217;t want to see the urban environment dominated by such things, it was good to see some examples of this just as a day-to-day thing rather than an experiment or artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this seems to have stopped doing anything interesting now. It just displays dull 20th-century stylee ads for the Sky channels. It has become another thing on the &#8220;to ignore&#8221; list, redolent of a dull TV ad break from the era when we didn&#8217;t timeshift TV rather than something futuristic. I want my future back.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update 2010-09-22. Live news and weather is now back at St. Pancras Station. The future is back on track.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is this screen in St. Pancras station: (indeed, there are lots of these around at stations). When I first saw these screens, they offered a rolling news service, alternating periods of news display with periods of advertising. I&#8217;d often watch them for a while, a quick chance to catch up on news and weather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12,22,13,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}