• mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    But your camera phone can already copy text. If it’s a tattoo about the first paper you wrote, whatever you make needs to work for 60+ years. Text is always going to be valid, who knows when QR codes will become obsolete. 60 years ago you’d be getting a tattoo of a punch card, and that would be mostly meaningless today.

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      6 months ago

      My camera phone can’t copy text :(

      (Original iPhone SE, so not recent, but not ancient or a flip phone or anything)

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      6 months ago

      I was just addressing the fact that QR Codes were only for URLs. As for whether they’ll be around in 60 years… Barcodes have proved to be fairly resilient.