BBC News - QR codes on headstones offered by Poole undertakers
A Dorset funeral director is offering interactive gravestones which provide information on the person buried.
A step on the way towards intelligent and connected tomb stones? Think about if you, by scanning this QR-code, got connected to an AI with real personality (by Sirius Cybernetic Corporation?) encoded with data to ‘match’ their life experiences and able calibrate to the relational status they would have had with the person scanning the code, granted the experience of ‘having a conversation’ with a digital clone of the deceased. A dynamic, four-dimensional version of what it would have been like to hear the voices of your relatives cut into a phonograph record at the turn of the last century…
