Forget everything you know about you. The past is irrelevant, because you can now become digital. You started to notice things changing when you sent your first email. You logged your first thoughts with email, and now you’ve begun creating avatars, photos, videos, and blogs that begin to form a rudimentary digital you.
You’ve noticed a shift away from the physical you, because the digital you can do so many new and exciting things. For starters, you can meet just about anyone you want to. You can also learn about (or just link to) an unlimited amount of information. And you can create a slightly better you.
Trend the digital you out a few more years from today and you see someone who is playing by a new set of digital laws. You can be whomever you want—even partitioning your identity as you see fit—and hide behind a mask. In fact, anonymity and pseudonymity completely uncouple the digital you from the physical you that you know today.
The digital you will retain relevance only to the extent that you exert your physical identity in the social graph. A world where identity is not anchored in some portion of static identity can never achieve greatness because it can never trust itself.
You’ve noticed a shift away from the physical you, because the digital you can do so many new and exciting things. For starters, you can meet just about anyone you want to. You can also learn about (or just link to) an unlimited amount of information. And you can create a slightly better you.
Trend the digital you out a few more years from today and you see someone who is playing by a new set of digital laws. You can be whomever you want—even partitioning your identity as you see fit—and hide behind a mask. In fact, anonymity and pseudonymity completely uncouple the digital you from the physical you that you know today.
The digital you will retain relevance only to the extent that you exert your physical identity in the social graph. A world where identity is not anchored in some portion of static identity can never achieve greatness because it can never trust itself.
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