What Scanlife Will Obsolesce
This new media will obsolesce current methods of advertising. No longer will a movie poster need to advertise times and trailers, a simple barcode will take this information’s place. It will obsolesce the use of yellow pages because if a user wants to find a person or place, they simply scan the barcode. It will obsolesce the way we used to use mobile phones and their browsers. Phones will become much more relevant and no longer will text messages be used, instead a barcode will be sent and huge e-mails can be contained in one symbol. In an extreme situation, this media could actually obsolesce alot of written word such as the newspaper and books. Rather than printing information, a barcode will be posted and the user can scan to read the entire book or article.
