Image courtesy of http://www.airport-technology.com/, originally uploaded by Jimbo (Alan James Wellock).
The LCD or liquid crystal display screen is now the most common choice for new transport stations when wanting to display information fast and effectively. As these displays increasingly occupy our public spaces though we arrive at a dilemma. These screens thanks to new developments can be as large as they need to be and as mentioned below can display a vast amount of indormation in various formats. The problem though is the same in which I find with computer screens. They simply occupy a space in the environment and only manipulate the inner surface of the flat screen.
In today's world of Nintendo Wii style interaction this seems, as Mau states a cold, alien like medium for communicating information. Unlike its electro-mechaincal ancestors the data doesn't move or change the air both around and in the screen unit itself. You cannot hear the screen animating or physically pick up the data, it doesn't seem to have the same warmth and reliable feel of a Split-flap display screen. It is this factor of data interaction that worries me as the Internet takes over more of our environment, are we going to see a decrease of interaction when deciphering data and will our physcial world become like our digital, restricted to a 4:3 ratio rectangle.
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