Not sure if I have a stalker who just downvote everything I say or what's going but with the danger of yet another downvote for having an opinion: You need sca

Not sure if I have a stalker who just downvote everything I say or what's going but with the danger of yet another downvote for having an opinion: You need scarcity in a digital world because you need things to be unique sometimes or have a unique history and because we need a way to establish "experience points" and to leave a trail that is uniquely yours and so that we can transfer that from one domain to another. That doesn't mean everything have to have a history or that we shouldn't take advantage of the Copy/Paste abilities digital gives us but there are plenty of areas where it's important to have scarcity. Some exampels are: Voting Intellectual Property Currency Contracts Documentation Som even more interesting although more speculative areas IMO are: As a base for AI (there should be a cost associated with everything AI do the closer we come to Generalized AI) The ability for the individual to own their own data while still making it available to others (This can apply to everything from healthcare to buyer data) I am of the belief that you want more fluidity in those areas the more digital our interactions become. Because that actually increases the need for "micro" agreements and history trails across organisationer or between humans. In other words I want a world where it's very easy for two or more parties to make agreements in the digital domain without being hooked up to some specific organisations interest. Just like I can freely trade my old book with the person next door. If you have a secondhand market you have the ability to freely move between organizations and people without any need for a middle man who With regards to the challenges for a Identity system it actually goes hand in hand with the second hand market in the sense that you want the ability to be able to know that a person/digital entity is what she/he/it say claim they are. The best way IMO is to create a unique finger print through our accumulated behaviors. I wrote an essay about this a while back: http://000fff.org/the-ghost-protocol-digital-identity-for-immortals/ http://000fff.org/the-ghost-protocol-digital-identity-for-im... But it will take time because it has to be a bottom up approach and it will require a lot more accumulation of our behavior plus perhaps some large player like FB, Google or Amazon to start accepting it. But that's why the second hand market is interesting in that it could allow for it to happen without big players.