QR Codes: Rethinking Daily Interactions in the Modern Age
Technology has changed the way we pay, shop, study, and even speak to one another. Of all the billions of innovations that have changed life as we are familiar with it in the present day, QR codes have got to be one of the most important but so primitive of a resource. The black-and-white or white-on-black designs in small squares composed of white and black pixels are everywhere—billboards, business cards, and others—and yet still changing the way we engage with information.
A Quick Response code, or QR code, is a two-dimensional matrix barcode discovered in the 1990s by business. While ordinary barcodes hold only basic information on a line of text, two-dimensional storage burdens QR codes with vast amounts of information including web addresses to websites, product information, or pay information. The benefit? Anyone who has a smartphone and camera is able to scan instantly and obtain the information.
