{"id":169,"date":"2006-10-25T01:42:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T08:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2006-10-25T01:42:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T08:42:59","slug":"anyonething-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/anyonething-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone\/thing out there?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something strange going on whenever <ahref =\"http:\/\/www.sxip.com\/\">identity2.0 is mentioned these days, or more precisely when we speak of identity online in the future.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that we used to ask ourselves whether the person behind the screen name was really who they are, but now we seem to be questioning whether they&#8217;re there at all or even human!<\/p>\n<p>For example: <a href=\"http:\/\/tecfa.unige.ch\/perso\/staf\/nova\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/death-switch-to-pretend-you-are-not-dead-has-become-an-art-form\/\">the death switch project<\/a> checks if you&#8217;re not dead by sending a subscriber an invitation to answer back with a secret password. Then there&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/anart.no\/projects\/interface-and-society\/exhibition#superconsumer\">Superconsumer<\/a> a computer that buys and sells things on ebay independantly.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the future of identity then? Is it that it&#8217;s not about the honesty of people online but actually if they&#8217;re even there at all to begin with?<\/p>\n<p>Creepy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <\/ahref><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something strange going on whenever identity2.0 is mentioned these days, or more precisely when we speak of identity online in the future. It seems to me that we used to ask ourselves whether the person behind the screen name was really who they are, but now we seem to be questioning whether they&#8217;re there&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/anyonething-out-there\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anyone\/thing out there?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-2J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}