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In the end we'll all need a number, a nice unique number, *our* number.

They are going to start taking genetic material from certain criminals soon, or even from people charged with crimes, but not convicted of them. You can get your own personal gene read-out already and once you own that data you can then look up any correlations that might pop up as new data comes along.

We'll all have cell phones and we'll all have emails and myspaces and websites and....why bother?

Why not have just one number?

Your genetics are your cell phone number are your website is your resume is your myspace.

It's not here yet and it's not being engineered for, because most people are not technological futurists, but, it'll come in time.

And why not really?

The thing is access control and data shaping and it will still be lop-sided and funny looking, but let's start the convo:

You own your data. But your interactors might own it too. If you buy a movie ticket you own the financial transaction, but the theatre (if they still exist) owns some of it too, not your CC number maybe, not your demographic info, but maybe, but they can at least say "Person saw X movie and X time and paid X". Your CC company (if they still exist) owns some of it too, the transaction record, your verification of the charge, but they might not own knowing what movie you saw. So ALL of the data is yours and some of that data is theirs too.

It's all a big rolling ball of dung in the end.

This is why it's about access notification and access management. Because you can't stop the funk.

We can either suffer under the watchful eye of who knows who. Or we can all watch ourselves\eachother\reality TV.
I don't mind the government watching me, I just want to watch them in return and I want to know what they are watching. If the internet has demonstrated anything it's that we'll watch anything and that mostly the world is composed of people we don't want to watch. A typical internet paradox. I could watch Japanese girls puking on each other, or Two Girls One Cup, but...really...no, pass.

So there's the Public Record which I've talked about, recap: All public audio\video records are digitized and stored where anybody can access them, and then there's the implications of that. And I think what we'll learn is that...we'd rather not be watching.

We could create algos to insta-splice pattern matched collages of clips. Everybody in public picking their noses right NOW. Everybody kissing. Everybody wearing your bands favorite T-shirt (or your favorite bands T-shirt even).

That's all limited by the search speeds and bandwidth, but mostly, the single number idea, you can look back on your day, watch who watched you, watch yourself.

Extend to internet land. You can watch your data and see watches it and what they watch it for.

This impacts the "life as internet" idea as well, since you are always wired, you are always watching feeds, like the newscrawl on cable, but it's your's and only your's. Like RSS feeds, but so much more, because most of it is going to be blips about who is accessing your data.

So to simplify all of this we'll each get our own single number, which we can mask and alias and all that, sure sure, and then it all falls out from there.