Thank you, xkcd. We giggle about creepy ideas, at first. Then we become angry in resistance or we resignedly accept the change. This happened with miniskirts and rock and roll. And with threats of nuclear winter. We’re still giggling about how vivid a portrait the cyberverse is painting. When will it shift it for you from a quirky concern to something real?
About Phil Wolff
Phil Wolff is strategy director of PDEC, the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, a Small Data NGO. Wolff is a director of the DataPortability Project and co-author of the project's model Portability Policy. He's had management, technology, and marketing roles at Adecco SA, LSI Logic, Bechtel National, Wang Laboratories, Compaq Computer, the City of Long Beach, the State of California, and the U.S. Navy Supply Systems Command. On LinkedIn, ORCID 0000-0002-7815-4750, Quora top 250 of 2012. He holds the PDQ Bach Inauthentic Identity Fellowship at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Phil lives in Adams Point, Oakland, California.