This article, and every other article, goes to great length to talk about the problems they attempt to solve: computing (and storage?) separated from an individ

This article, and every other article, goes to great length to talk about the problems they attempt to solve: computing (and storage?) separated from an individual device, personal ownership of an identity, and communication channels between those identities and presumably the computation that works on those identities' behalf. With a bunch of privacy stuff and maybe some ability to fund this computation? Where every article fails is in saying how they accomplish it and what any of it means in practice. We're both baffled on that point.