Identity - Who and What Am I?
In a digital world the concept of Identity is under definition. For thousands of years people, organizations and 'things' (animals, ships, mountains...) have had characteristics of identity that were local, and in many cases completely subject to their close environs. The concept of 'papers' is relatively recent (a couple of hundred years old) and as we move headlong into a digital world, control of our identity has rapidly shifted away from the individual (person, org, thing) to other bodies (gov's, businesses). We are are at a crucial point of being able to wrest back some degree of control, but this window is closing.
My questions are thus:
- how do you define identity?
- what is the difference between identity of a thing versus a person versus and organization?
- personal data a human right or asset? Inalienable or alienable?
Michael Shea Wed 13 Mar 2019 7:03PM
Not following, can you describe a little more.
Josh Fairhead Wed 13 Mar 2019 10:04PM
It's the generalised theme of your questions above. What kind of symmetry are we looking for in identity? Theres an integrated duality theme. Privacy vs transparency? Subjective identity (social) vs objective (genetic)?
Skin in the game is important - without it we are dumb and sad; how much of an identity should be surfaced? Having some form of identity is necessary to exist (at least to others)... so by extension how much should be publicly provable or remembered?
Josh Fairhead · Wed 6 Mar 2019 7:19PM
What kind of symmetry are we looking for in Identity?