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What if there's a QR code on the card? Then it's basically the same amount of work as getting that NFC tap.

I feel like a business card is something physical to hand people so they have it to look back at later. If you're just looking to NFC tap your contact info onto people's phones, why wouldn't you just use your own phone to do it?

This reminds me of something tangentially related. Sometime around the turn of the century I worked at a small business where some vendor came in to solicit interest in his business' services, and left a working CD-ROM business card. That mildly impressed the manager because CD-ROMs were still pretty fancy and nobody there had seen a business card like that before, and when run the card had some simple Flash-like slideshow thing with a little video clip or two about their business (which was still impressive when you couldn't really have embedded video clips on your average dialup-friendly website.) Around a week later that same vendor returned asking for the card back because "they're pretty expensive to make and I want to give it to my next prospect," and the manager's impression of him went from mildly impressed to thinking this guy was too hilariously amateurish to bother engaging with.

Hacker Kevin Mitnick had a famous metal business card for his computer security firm which was a set of lockpicks. The lockpicks really worked if you knew how to pick locks.

No, this is the Krusty Krab.

I use paper business cards all the time. They're fun and cheap.

Also, plain boring unimaginatively-designed business cards are so ubiquitous that if you're using a design that's at all interesting yours will easily be way ahead of most of the other business cards people will get.

NFC cards are far more expensive than printed paper business cards.

Fans of Christopher Eccleston in Doctor Who also know this scenario well.

Someone probably shouldn't be your teenage son AND your husband.

It's not too late to check it out.

Why didn't somebody tell me my luggage was so big?!

Didn't I see you smashing a bunch of eggs on YouTube?