“America’s Technology Capital”
Reading one of my daily blogs, Engadget, I read about a new movie payment method. The Emagine Entertainment Theater in Novi is using a system that displays the ticket barcode on your cell phone. You simply just present the image to the ticket taker to be scanned. You simply order your tickets over the phone and the barcode image is sent to your phone. That sounds neat and all, but what got me was this quote.
A movie theater in a suburb of America’s technology capital has begun trial-running a payment method that allows customers to not only purchase tickets from their cellphones but actually present an on-screen barcode to the tickettaker.
I’ve never heard Detroit called America’s technology capital before. Especially from a blog born out of Southern California, where all the tech news comes from.
well, it is what we’re aiming for now, i think, in someway at least… with Wayne State setting up Tech Town in the New Center area and places like Compuware setting roots, it’s possible… but it may be a little premature to call us “America’s technology capital”…
still, if you print/say something enough, people will start to believe it… whether or not it’s true is a whole ‘nother story…
“still, if you print/say something enough, people will start to believe it… whether or not it’s true is a whole ‘nother story…”
I like that idea. We should just keep saying it until it becomes true.
Detroit as America’s Technology Capital? That’s news to me. I would like to see that statement become a reality though.