Digital Revolution

Humanities 320


1. Bar code technology has been used for an increasingly large variety of applications.

a. Which two applications of bar code technology are you most happy were developed? (Describe the way the "situations" were addressed before bar codes were used and the way the use of bar codes changed things.)

b. Describe a use of bar code technology that, to the best of your knowledge, has not been used in the past and describe why you think society would benefit from your invention. (One way to do this is to adapt to a new situation a way that bar codes have been used in the past but which is not currently being used.)


Write an essay of at least 400 words that addresses a. and b. above.