Founders: Why some of your great idea needs to wait
Invention of QR Code x Go Chess
I was today years old when I found out QR code stands for Quick Response Code and it was inspired by a lunchtime game of Go (the traditional strategy board game).
The inventor Masahiro Hara worked for Denso Wave (a subsidiary of Toyota) when he was trying to find a more efficient way to replace conventional barcode scanning for their manufacturing sites, which came to life in 1994.
Denso Wave decided to make the code’s specs public so that anybody can use it without charge. Even so, the technology did not take off immediately and its application was still limited at that time…
I have included a couple of links by the end of the article in case anyone wants to learn about its story in detail.
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It’s a technology that I feel we don’t talk about it enough. It enables so many things digital — survey, more information, sign-up, many others and…menu. (Not sure if I like that because some of them are so bad, but I guess merchants do).
QR code takes 20+ years and Covid, for the technology and public to fully adopt it.
Before smartphone, there was no way; Even early times of smartphones people had to install a QR code scanner app to scan them.
But when it crosses the chasm, it changes many things.
Founders: your vision might seem distant, it takes time and courage to navigate the idea maze. Investors will ask you ‘Why is this a good time’, which…might not be.
But if you envision it, don’t let it slip. Work toward that;
If you can’t, hold on to that and keep looking, so when the time comes you take the leap of faith.
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Information source from Denso Wave website
History of QR code from another good source: history-computer.com
