This weekend, I took my sons into Cambridge for a museum and Harvard trip. We visited the Museum of Natural History,a favorite of theirs and then went to my old house on campus, Lowell House, to take part in the Bells Symposium and to hear the old bells ring one last time. See here for more info, I'll spare you the details, fascinating as they are to me.
The museum was cool, and I enjoyed the bells symposium more than the kids, but my older son really got into hanging out in the bell tower watching the bells rung. But one of the coolest parts of our journey was on the subway. Now kids love trains, and unfortunately in our family schedules, we drive 99% of the time, but this time the commuter train to Boston and the subway to Cambridge worked for us.
I have not been on the subway in years, and I don't know if this is old news or brand-new technology, The MBTA has installed commercials on the subway walls. They went back to the future and used the same technology as old-fashioned zoetropes (remember those cartoon strips spinning in cylinders with slits cut in the side to see animation).
On the way into South Station, we saw Speed Racer zooming along in an ad for the new movie. On the way out of Central Square, we were invited to canoe in Vermont. I'm not one to love the insertion of advertising into every square inch of our lives, but this technology--and its appeal to a captive and bored audience--was very cool.
Guess it has been a while since my last T ride. The program maight have begun in 2002. Here's a link to more about it at techpark.net
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