This is really neat. I love the concept of computing shrines. It feels to me like something that you can stumble upon and interact with might be the most magical-feeling of 'shrines'
My mind immediately jumps to a big installation, but tech more like QR codes and NFC might be a lot closer to a 'shrine' than something like a public-interactive kiosk. The reason being the latter tends to end up feeling klunky and less 'fun' than something that's more accessible, like the aforementioned NFC and QR.
I made prototype of something like a public kiosk for a hackathon late last year, that might be interesting. I'm sure I'll get marked as spam if I post a link, but if you search 'Dreamages Presentation' on youtube, you should see it under my handle. We were envisioning a small box with a small screen, maybe strapped to a telephone pole that you might stumble upon on a quiet city block. It would ask you if you want to share a story on the screen, and if you press the screen to confirm you'd like to interact with it, give you some sort of prompt, trying to get a small story out of you.
The AI portion of the demo was silly, but that kind of interaction with technology where it doesn't feel like a normal user-computer interaction made me think of it as a potential 'shrine'
Another thing that reminds me of a computer shrine is a QR code I stumbled upon recently, stickered to a telephone pole next to a bike trail that said "Do not scan"
I have a picture of it, but I have no idea where the code actually would send one to. For once in my life, I followed the instructions.
talking about 'local connection' i remember falling in love with this back then: https://geniusloci.com/
This is really neat. I love the concept of computing shrines. It feels to me like something that you can stumble upon and interact with might be the most magical-feeling of 'shrines'
My mind immediately jumps to a big installation, but tech more like QR codes and NFC might be a lot closer to a 'shrine' than something like a public-interactive kiosk. The reason being the latter tends to end up feeling klunky and less 'fun' than something that's more accessible, like the aforementioned NFC and QR.
I made prototype of something like a public kiosk for a hackathon late last year, that might be interesting. I'm sure I'll get marked as spam if I post a link, but if you search 'Dreamages Presentation' on youtube, you should see it under my handle. We were envisioning a small box with a small screen, maybe strapped to a telephone pole that you might stumble upon on a quiet city block. It would ask you if you want to share a story on the screen, and if you press the screen to confirm you'd like to interact with it, give you some sort of prompt, trying to get a small story out of you.
The AI portion of the demo was silly, but that kind of interaction with technology where it doesn't feel like a normal user-computer interaction made me think of it as a potential 'shrine'
Another thing that reminds me of a computer shrine is a QR code I stumbled upon recently, stickered to a telephone pole next to a bike trail that said "Do not scan"
I have a picture of it, but I have no idea where the code actually would send one to. For once in my life, I followed the instructions.