The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st-Century Technology?'
'The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st-Century Technology? 'by Tracy Follows:
Follows shows that the rise in identity tracking and authenticating technologies means a corresponding increase in surveillance. She explains how this relates to the tension between decentralized/ federated systems vs. centralized systems.
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A new governance model will probably emerge this century, in which nation states act more like technology platforms and technology platforms act more like nation states. As a result, future governance will be data-driven, made possible through the digitisation of identity. The way we work, play, travel, learn, shop, vote and communicate will become untethered from the land and move into the cloud. National governments know this, which is why they want to work so closely with the tech platforms – it’s a route to maintaining some of their declining power. But the public will not tolerate this kind of collusion so readily.
A battle between the old and new forms of governance is inevitable. It will be the battle of a generation, pitting surveillance and safety against independence and autonomy.
In the digital world, deplatforming is tantamount to depersoning. This is therefore a fight for sovereignty. It will almost certainly produce some kind of digital Bill of Rights. The only question is what this will look like.
When Big Tech and the government combine - spiked (spiked-online.com)