The Barcode Engineered Its Own Downfall
Latest find in my favourite nerdy subgenre «the in-depth profile of stuff our modern world runs on». This one tells the story of the barcode, which for half a century has been the «plumbing of global capitalism», and now faces a slow death.
From Weekly Filet #473, in January 2024.
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