ABC - Call it tombstone technology. Some gravestones can now link loved ones to online memorials using a smartphone. A monument company in Indiana is offering to put QR codes on headstones. You scan it with your smartphone and the codes connect you to a memorial website about a loved one, including photos, biography, and other information. They can even send text messages to the family or share stories. The company says it's selling several of the headstones each day.
Well that's going to be the icing on the cake. You're just going see widespread brawls taking place in the middle of funeral processions from here out. Old people swinging canes and walkers, ringing the bells on their life alert alarms to bring reinforcements, versus, teenagers and twenty somethings raising holy hell with their damned modern techmogizmos.
Nothing will divide the crowd more than some youngster with a smartphone reading the QR code on the grave stone and chuckling at old family videos of the deceased while the old folks mourning their loss in the more traditional way stand a few feet away. Oldie's already think whiffersnappers and their cellphones are the down fall to society and you can't go anywhere without seeing them. The cemetery was like their Fortress of Solitude when it came to that kind of stuff...not so much anymore gramps.
PS: I'd want my QR Code to go to something really creepy, something like:
