QR codes here, in my lifetime?

When Jørgen and I were working on Geoloq.us in 2005, we prototyped the use of EAN barcodes, Semacodes, Shotcodes and QR-codes for marking locations and embedding messages. At the time, cameraphones were rare and cheap mobile data access unheard of, so we decided against using 2D barcodes in our app.

Five years later cameras and internet access is a given on most mobiles, but QR codes are still quite rare in US and European consumer markets. Sure, Semacode now makes a QR code reader for the iPhone, but it remains to be seen if Facebook’s QR-coded status updates will make us love 2D barcodes.

There are several lines of verse in the QR code above. Tell me who wrote that text in the comments and I’ll reward you with a bottle of wine if you live in/around Oslo. Really.