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Have QR codes faded away? Or am I just not noticing them anymore?

Just a random thought while I was reading...

In "Dimensions" Jones spends a lot of time talking about QR codes. He states, "As I write this, QR codes show no signs yet of fading away" (41). After reading this statement, I immediately flipped to the front of the book to see when it was published. Turns out, it was published in 2014.

I don't know about anyone else, but I definitely feel like QR codes have somewhat faded away at this point in 2019. I still see them from time to time, but I don't feel like I'm just bombarded with them all the time anymore. A few years ago I felt like they were EVERYWHERE! 

Maybe I've become desensitized to them and I'm just not noticing them as much. We all know how quickly technology develops and how quickly technology can become outdated. Even though this book is only five years old, I felt like Jones' discussion of QR codes was another reminder of how quickly this happens, oftentimes without us even realizing it has happened.

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  1. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2019 at 7:51 PM

    I think you are right! We had a teacher try to come into our classroom one day and get the students to use them. They said they didn't really like them and had deleted the apps used for the QR codes long ago. They also did not want to keep the app on their phone because it too up too much of their valuable space. Several could not download it anyway because of available space issues in their storage. I feel like we use the google shortened codes more than anything. What are they called bitly's or something like that.

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