FC Barcelona's soccer stadium foregoes technology
If you're a fan of American football (or any other big-time American sport, for that matter), you could be excused for believing that technology is rapidly becoming the determining factor in the sporting experience when attending a game. But if you're a fan of international football, by far the world's most popular game, it turns out that technology can play a less central role without necessarily impacting the quality of the game experience.
A study in contrasts
Just last year, for example, I wrote a glowing report here in Tech Watch covering the high-tech accouterments of Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, the gleaming new home of the San Francisco 49ers. And as the NFL season geared up, the New York Times and others wrote stories about the league's high-tech arms race, which rivaled the battles on the field in intensity and may have exceeded it in terms of the dollars at stake.
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