What-Happenedings

Though it may take longer. Usually does. I say some stuff I trust will eventually prove true in Pew's Imagining the Digital Future report on being human ten years from now.

Be theres. In The False Intention Economy: How AI Systems Are Replacing Human Will with Modeled Behavior, Katalin Bártfai-Walcott lays out the battlefield between the real Intention Economy and the fake one that surveillance creeps are talking about. We'll be working on the real one next week at VRM Day and IIW. VRM Day (on Monday) is free, and IIW is cheap as conferences go. (Among other good things, I hope that this by Dazza Greenwood comes up.)

It's not about identity on the Internet. It's about the better system that replaces it. As Jamie Smith explains, Steve (Lockstep) Wilson does a great job explaining verifiable credentials.

Answers are in the comments. Oddly, among my most-visited (and presumably linked-to) blog posts is What are the balls on Prague’s spires called??

In case you didn't know already. Mark Hurst: AI is creating a frictionless surveillance state.