Understanding of ‘digital identity’ — a conversations w Doc Searls and D Reed

The article, a March 2021 blog post by Drummond Reed's interlocutor (the author, who writes from AKASHA Foundation), argues that digital identity must be assessed as sociotechnology rather than as a narrow technical system. It contends that self-sovereign identity (SSI) looks sensible when viewed atomistically but produces malignant emergent consequences at scale. The post also argues that agency is social rather than individual, citing the bicycle example, and says Doc Searls and Drummond Reed disagree with it about the noun-like and verb-like categories of identity. It says Searls responded that "credentials are nouns, but to present them is a verb."