Imagine a world without identity, and what my mind would do trying to wrap itself around the concept of someone trying to sell me the idea of identity. I don’t mean lacking the ability to distinguish ourselves from other entities as separate individuals, I mean the idea of knowing who other people *are*. To relate this to openID, let’s step back a moment from the idea of accounts *at all think of the internet as just one giant bulletin board, where anyone can leave notes anywhere. you’ve articulated the question well; but then you’ve dropped it, and fallen back to discussing the identity of blog-posters again. Identity in a world of physical people you have met, people can talk to in person, is a kind of baseline.

                                                                       







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