This talk by Dick Hardt is a great intro to some of the technological issues I am going to look at in my thesis. In this talk Dick defines identity as who we are to ourselves and who we are to others. Since he is looking at practical (technical) solutions to the challenge of finding solutions to proving who we are online this approach makes sense; but I think he doesn't really get into the problem of multiplicitous identity online (although arguably his push for user-centric identity is a direct response to that). What do you think? Will a digital driver's licence still allow the liberatory freedom of anonymity and pseudonomity? Do we still think about the web in those terms or is it becoming more of a mirror of the meatworld?
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