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QR Codes For Memorials
mikejuk writes "Companies in America, Denmark and the UK are adding QR codes to gravestones that can be used to view online memorials via smartphones. The idea is that these living headstones can include photographs, videos and memories of the dead person from family and friends. Genealogists and historians have always found graveyards a useful resource. If the QR idea takes hold memorials will be able to tell much more to future generations."
If the QR idea takes hold memorials will be able to tell much more to future generations
Yes, put obsolete technology there. Why not just put floppies?
You don't need QR codes for that information anymore. Everything is saved anyway. You could just put the persons social security number there and all that information and much more would still be available.
QR codes may not be popular for long, but they are easy enough to build a program to read. Do you really think future humans will be carrying around weaker computers than we are now?
The company being around is not that important considering you can store ~2KB in a QR code.
Wonderful. Future humans with their amazingly powerful computers will be able to decipher such amazing messages as "http://www.qr-memories.co.uk/memorials4less/115223/b11235/4.gif".
Through sufficiently advanced technology, future generations may eventually use that message to discover that their great uncle Leon's favourite number was 404.