To be honest the phenomenon of Whatsapp and QR Codes is really starting to bother me. I know I have blogged about this before, but only in a passing, unconcerned way. It is a technology I can’t access, but I just let it slide. These days, however, the codes are becoming so ubiquitous that it’s really starting to get to me. Because I can’t hold my Ipad camera up to scan the codes, I have no way of accessing them. Of course, I still have alternatives like Facebook, but frankly it’s really starting to get to me. Up until now, I’ve tried to be an up-to-date kind of guy, embracing new technology and social phenomena where I can. Yet Whatsapp has excluded me completely because accessing it requires physical abilities which I as a disabled man do not have. This would be fine as there are other, more accessible alternatives. Yet this is becoming so ubiquitous, with QR codes appearing everywhere from bus stop signs to the big screen outside London Stadium, that I can’t help starting to feel a little excluded and discriminated against.