There’s quite a cool public art / Nokia advertorial installation in the Bullring in Birmingham city at the moment. It’s a mobile museum of extinct technology — and every display is hilarious, and rather good marketing for a flash new bit of technology.
Among other things, there’s a yuppie in a winebar talking on a brick-sized mobile phone, and a couple trying to navigate on their drive using an archaic paper map. The narration you get when you press the button discusses the display in full Attenborough nature documentary mode.
But this was my favourite ‘extinct media’ display. Apparently, this was how people used to buy music in ancient times.
The Mobile Museum of Extinct Technology is around till Saturday in the city center, and it’s definitely worth a look, even if you feel you’re being sold something…
UPDATE: I took a bunch more photos of the display — and yes, I used my phone to do so. Here’s the Flickr Set.
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