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Re: DIDW links
Doc, Not being able to make it to DIDW, I really appreciated the coverage of that event by the conference-scenti. Vintage 1995 Baudrillard, the hyper-real taking over the real. To me what was most interesting was how the speakers, and listeners interacted, more so than any particular points that appeared to have surfaced. Is Digital Identity a decaying meme? I think so, yet there are still interesting issues to discuss, as the topic moves from technical how to do it, to what sociological effects the network-actor creates in the media with her creative identity. Like most tech transfer, the process will soon be largely invisible to the subsequent groups of adopters, taking place on the backend, like an ATM. Virtual identity, (and gates based on same)don't require much in the form of consent. It can simply be organized out of the flotsam and jetsam of the info streams. In many respects it's just already there as virtual geography like the unique number on every network card.This is why there is no serious clamor to establish standards, it's already just so possible, that it almost is irrelevant how you do it, just that it happens. Is there a culture that's arisen due to the ready supply of 24 hour cash? I don't think so, it's just a useful technology. Will Digital Identity require safeguards? Absolutely. But it's no Nirvana, and will be likely to be as exciting as the ATM, useful when you need it, pretty much unthought of otherwise, perhaps with different flavors and communities of practice, we might see something that Foucault described as "identity marked by the remainder of the differences". Other than the service charge, do we care which ATM spits out the needed cash? Peter Bachman Cequs Inc.
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