QR Codes

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Richard Wiggins wrote:

> ... 
> I remain puzzled by the fascination with QR codes, as if penicillin had
> been discovered.  It is, by now, an old technology, useful in context.
> 
> It is a bar code.  A bar code is applied to a physical object that you scan
> with a scanner, or, more recently, with a camera, perhaps on a smart phone.
> ...

QR codes may have been INVENTED for the purpose of representing a physical 
object, but arguing that that is what IS FOR is a classic case of Luddite 
thinking. It can represent a wide variety of things, from a web address to 
the information on a business card to plain text.

The game-changer, I think (somebody mentioned this), is that QR codes 
offer a way to transfer information from a screen to a personal device. 
This can be done anonymously, without a network connection. What other 
technology can do that so easily, or at all?

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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2012-04-16