Tommy Noonan at Amalgamated made the QR code that looks like Jesus in this high-tech Augmented Reality celebration of Lent. Those who couldn't make it to the nearest priest with sooty fingers yesterday could just stick the QR code on their forehead, point their webcamera at themselves, and pick the ash patterns they liked.
"When you can't make it to church on Ash Wednesday, they you can get them virtually."
High-tech religion. So very cyberpunk. Oh god, I just said cyberpunk. I'm old.
You'll be disappointed if you do try to scan it - it doesn't.
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PermalinkIt is a shame cyberpunk got absorbed into the society at large. Ya know we are all jacked-in and don't know it.
The Game Uplink was used as a positive example in an answer to the question, Is Cyberpunk Dead (2004).
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