What Is the Future of the New York City Payphone?
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Imagine this: the 11,412 payphones in New York City all turned into digital nodes that let you pay bills, pay for parking, call a cab and otherwise act as a data network to foster communication between New Yorkers and their city.
That’s what Titan, a sales company, and Control Group, a tech and design firm, are proposing with “NYC I/O, The Responsive City,” an idea submitted to New York City’s Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge. The idea won the “Community Impact Award” during a demo day for the challenge, and is one of the six winners that will now be put to a public vote via Facebook.
The idea turns the payphone into a digital input/output system — citizens input information and get back results, while all the data is used to improve New York City infrastructure.
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