Interchangeable parts technology in the Industrial Age was about making unique lumps of matter indistinguishable, and then slapping on locally unique-enough serial numbers to redistinguish them, via bits that provided functionally sufficient addressability in a local namespace.
The identity stack is 3 layers: interchangeable parts manufacturing, distinguishable information sets, and computationally costly cryptography. It serves to separate material function from social, cultural, and political identity functions by separating the time and energy costs.
-
-
This means material function can get as cheap as physics permits, and as fast as technology — increasingly this means energy technology — improves. Non-material functions relating to social notions of status, ownership, rights, and so on, can be priced at will.
Show this thread -
This trend, of separation of material and social functions of technology at the lowest level attainable — time/energy costs at the level of bits and atoms — is something like the separation of church and state for our times. For better or worse, the future will be shaped by it.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Crypto as artificial scarcity, the ultimate BullshitJob?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.