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This is my bus ticket.
I get the bus to and from work every morning. This is an image of the ticket i purchase and slide into a machine which registers the ticket and then proceeds to add the date and time which i used it. It also registers my journey and takes one away from the ten which i originally purchased. Quite a simple and effortless bit of technology.
But what happens when the ticket machine is broken? Well, the bus driver punches a hole in the ticket. The hole is registered when the ticket is put back into a working machine, and the ticket continues to register the amount of journeys youhave used, taking into account those which occurred when the ticket machine was out of action.
I think this is a prime example of how technology can continue to be used even when it isn’t present. The use of the ticket machine has been awknowledged and the occurances of faults within these machines has been designed into the ticket system.
