The question is: what digital scenarios will take shape next year? Not sure of the answer I did a ride with the DeLorean from parts of 2011, and now that I have just returned from the near future I can tell you what I saw. In fact, I will focus in particular on one of cosedigitali surfaced: QR codes
In that 2011, bookstores will begin to see the first book-and , paper books, thanks to QR codes allow you to access digital content from their mobile phone. fits, you shoot, you access the Internet and you will look at the media
I saw a girl buy Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne , sat at the bar and began to read and after a few pages I've seen her take the smartphone, framing a small code printed alongside the text, click the image and enjoy a short video that shows the locations of the journey of Phileas Fogg and Passepartout.
I noticed that many posters around the city had including these QR codes, sometimes large, and quite a few people stopping to take with the phone. One of them leaped because after the scan the QR had received a discount of 15%.
other side of the road a man stopped the newspaper was taking a QR on your mobile phone to download the new sudoku the week. In many pages
newspapers reported these two-dimensional code on the side of the articles and you could see more and more people aiming to do the scanning for access to content.
A restaurant had made the entry a QR code that gave the daily menu updated with a lot of money, and in some cinemas can book was printed on the poster by clicking a QR. Chains distribution was possible to have additional information on certain products, including user comments or reviews technical specialists. So at that
QR 2011, began to spread like wildfire a bit 'everywhere.
Back to the present. QR codes although mature technology in tracking goods (especially in the rising sun), could resume a new life and new substance in many other areas such as communication interface for marketing, or infotainment systems, the role games , and mobile payment . There are already many applications in cases where these settorei pioneering the use of the QR even if it is spreading. They range from rural
advertising of luxury brands and beverage, reservation systems to video games or cinema seats. The coffee chain Starbucks, for example, is taking a payment system based on a QR loaded on their phones, so you avoid ache of having to print tickets or loyalty card.
the Education sector in the use of these codes could enable and facilitate arrangements for access to knowledge not only innovative but also more appealing especially to younger people. This can include manuals, guides and textbooks that will allow you access to videos, interviews, maps, a dynamic multimedia content including those produced by students themselves (UGC has mentioned Emanuela Zaccone ).
integration between paper and digital is certainly a key driver for the success of these codes, it also represents a different idea of \u200b\u200bevolution of the book, which in addition to the ebook could have its own value and its impact in the short to medium term.
But there is still paper-digital integration. Equally important is the use of these codes can be made of such cities, in public parks. As was done in New York with the project Turning New York's Central Park in an interactive board games where you can experience the city's parks in new cultural and interactive gaming experience. The parkcodes are scattered here and there along the paths and places of the park, and provide access to additional content, such see a movie scene filmed in the same place where you are, or listen to a concert made the previous month, or maybe see it was a hundred years before that particular shot. And then stories, anecdotes, history, insights on flora and fauna, without electronic systems to install and maintain.
These two-dimensional code which is emerging a new form of art, representing a low-cost system for the introduction of augmented reality , bringing additional digital elements analog to our everyday experience
QR codes can be easy enablers processes narrowmarketing mentioned by Simon Coram, capturing the full paradigm of this invisible anthropological revolution that is creating the web. The narrative is what the new old model of access to knowledge and social relations that is emerging, and the widespread use of intelligent but may in fact facilitate the QR.
Then, the QR will be successful? Maybe yes, because the technology is cheap and is based on the simple use of the communication system more widely to the world through a cell phone. But
may or may not have any success if not used properly and not disclosed properly. As is happening in some magazines or books that show you some of the codes almost unreadable. If these technologies do not work immediately when they are introduced, are quickly abandoned, and unenforceable, but not because of lack of capacity, professionalism and competence on the part of those who equip it in a superficial way.
In conclusion, the journey in 2011, I saw an emergence of QR codes, which were beginning to look a bit 'everywhere. But be careful: you know that the DeLorean occasionally has problems with the flux capacitor, and then I might as well be done in a parallel 2011.
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