{"id":2010,"date":"2014-06-25T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/06\/25\/and-this-is-where-sports-technology-begins-to\/"},"modified":"2015-01-10T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T17:38:36","slug":"and-this-is-where-sports-technology-begins-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/06\/25\/and-this-is-where-sports-technology-begins-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7qd57qS1U1rrwkloo1_1280.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7qd57qS1U1rrwkloo1_1280.jpg?resize=500%2C254&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7qd57qS1U1rrwkloo1_1280.jpg?resize=500%2C254&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7qd57qS1U1rrwkloo1_1280.jpg?resize=100%2C51&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n7qd57qS1U1rrwkloo1_1280.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>And this is where sports technology begins to illuminate larger issues around human and technological agency.<\/p>\n\n  <p>Like sport itself, these debates are endless. No technology will ever be infallible, but it may certainly be more accurate than human referees, umpires, commentators and armchair critics. What\u2019s really interesting about having this debate at the TMS level is that it\u2019s fundamentally and visibly embedded in a larger system: that of the game and history of cricket, a rule-based structure which leaves plenty of wiggle room for human fallibility, and human passions. This means the debate is not about the technology itself, but about its wider implications for the system it\u2019s embedded in. The graphics are pretty but we care about the outcome a lot more.<\/p>\n\n  <p>But when such debates happen in wider society \u2013 another rule-based structure with a degree of wiggle room \u2013 this isn\u2019t always the case. The same arguments around human and technological agency are occurring all around us, but we don\u2019t seem to be debating them in the same way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s an idea for an interesting game\u2014a physical game with a digital arbiter, where players get to adjust the level of technological interference. This could possibly be a very educational experience about technology and human agency.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/booktwo.org\/notebook\/cricket-technology-politics\/\">Test Match Special and Technological Agency | booktwo.org<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this is where sports technology begins to illuminate larger issues around human and technological agency. Like sport itself, these debates are endless. No technology will ever be infallible, but it may certainly be more accurate than human referees, umpires, commentators and armchair critics. What\u2019s really interesting about having this debate at the TMS level &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/06\/25\/and-this-is-where-sports-technology-begins-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}