If you wonder what the hell I have been talking about…
READ THIS! It eloquently says what I have been hinting at (or outright saying, albeit poorly) for a few weeks now. The web does not change the types of relationships we have or our fundamental nature. It just brings into focus who we really are. It makes us rethink how we work and how we interact in life. Blogs, ecommerce, DRM, DigID, they all help to bring into focus assumptions we have taken for granted our entire lives. Who am I? Who are you? How do I know you are who you say you are? If I don’t know who you are, how do I conduct business with you? These are issues that have largely been overlooked, and the internet is forcing us to examine them like never before.
It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one who sees that the web changes nothing.