Is Technology Ruining Sports?
Hockey Enthusiasts will remember with great disdain the year the National Hockey League introduced the glowing puck. In an effort to appeal to a new audience, the league thought that creating a puck, complete with infrared emitters, a shock sensor, and an embedded circuit board, giving the puck it’s glow, would be a game-changer. It was, but not in the way the NHL had hoped.
A year after FIFA introduced one of its newest technology implementations, the semi-automated offside tool, it has decided to begin thinking about other technologies that can be used to improve the game. However, many fans are concerned, and rightly so, that as more tech continues to find its way onto the field, the authenticity of the game will find itself in peril.
