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9:41am on Friday, 25th February, 2022:
Anecdote
I took part in a podcast a couple of weeks ago which has now been released. Unlike many of the podcasts I take part in: a) I've been told it's now released, and b) it's recent enough that I actually remember it. It's a three-hander, with professional futurist Tracey Follows (whose podcast it is) asking questions of me and long-time digital services consultant Dave Birch (whom I first met maybbe 20 years ago: he recommended a new upstart company called Paypal to me).
The topic was online identity, and Dave made a very good point at the very end. Identity isn't what needs to be transportable: credentials are what need to be transportable. It's not who you are online that's important, but what you can do. In MMORPGs, of course, these are one and the same thing — who you are is what you can do — but that's not something that's occurred to me before.
The podcast was therefore well worth participating in from my point of view, although whether it's worth listening to rather depends on the listener. It's here https://www.traceyfollows.com/episode1/, anyway, should you also have an interest in the topic.
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