The Next Best Thing -- QR Codes For Individuals -- July 20, 2021

I don't know if "network" television has it but on Hulu streaming / TV Land, something very, very interesting. Many of the ads (or "commercials") are interactive. Some ads have an icon that when accessed via the remote control will take you to a new web site. Others, and I find this much more interesting: some ads have a "QR code" embedded. So, if interested, use your smartphone to access the website of the company airing the ad. St Jude does it, making donations so incredibly very simple.

Over at the sidebar at the right I have something called "the next big thing." I haven't added much to it in the past year or so, but today, something new is added. 

I once thought it would be cool if everyone was given a subcutaneous chip immediately after birth, but it is obvious now that won't work. 

But wouldn't this be interesting: everyone is given a "QR code" along with one's social security card / number. The QR code would take one to a public / personal site for each and every individual born in the US. Whenever I posted something, my avatar would include an embedded QR code (whether one could actually see it or not). The embedded QR codes would have the "security / integrity" of NFTs. Only the "owner" could access the "public" website but the "owner" would have access to his/her entire web experience.

And, yes, the assigned QR code would eliminate the need for a physical 2" x 3" paper social security card. 

Official documents like birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, automobile "pink slips," could all be maintained as NFT-documents.

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Duolingo

Sophia and I are learning Spanish on Duolingo. Ten minutes each day. 

Paying off nicely.

More and more comments at social media sites are in Spanish. More and more of those comments I can read without using google. And in the process I'm learning more Spanish. Sort of a software "do loop."