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What happens when technology inevitably moves on? The article goes into this a little, but QR codes aren’t exactly cutting edge anymore. They’re not very widely used, and have already begun to move into that strange area where the only people or groups that use them date themselves by doing so. You know, like how when companies try and appeal to #millennials by turning old memes into ads. It’s the equivalent of your grandmother proudly telling you about how they finally got one of those new-fangled flatscreen televisions. It’s still a big step, and useful, but the world’s already started to move on to bigger and better things. That’s how things go these days, unfortunately. There’s always some new exciting app that is a total life changer until one day, with no warning, it isn’t.<\/p>\n
Now, usually this isn’t that big a deal. Phone models come and go, headphone jacks are added and taken away, and the world spins on. People adapt. However, what about when it is our graves that are no longer relevant? Cemeteries are supposed to be places of quiet, stillness, and a certain sense of timelessness. Death is universal, and a gravestone is supposed to be something that will be able to speak throughout the decades and the centuries. From the pyramids to the modern day, graves were places where people stop, reflect, and remember. They exist outside of time, outside of trends, fashions, and fads. By adding QR codes into the mix, people are crossing this boundaries. You shouldn’t ever look at a grave and think “Wow that is\u00a0<\/em>so\u00a0<\/strong>five years ago.” Maybe I’m just being traditionalist, and am already behind the times, but respecting and honoring the dead is as universal as any human trait. It does not, and should not, go out of style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What I found really fascinating about the QR article was how it brought up the aspect of\u00a0obsolescence, which I think is often overlooked in these discussions. While I do think that adding QR codes to gravestones is, if nothing else, an interesting wrinkle to traditional grave plots,\u00a0I wonder what those relatives will think in five, … <\/p>\n