Imagining the Future of Fandom
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SSI (Self-Sovereign Identifiers) vs. FIDO (Fast IDentity Online)
The concept of passwordless, cryptographically protected digital identification has been around for a very long time. Today there are two competing technologies offering differing visions for our potential future digital identities: FIDO2, a specification from the FIDO Alliance, and SSI, a catchall phrase for a group of decentralized identity schemas.
FIDO’s mission is to eliminate the password and make multi-factor authentication (MFA) easy, fast, and ubiquitous. The standard is singularly focused on security. Google brags, “On the employee side, there has not been a successful phishing attack against Google’s 85,000+ employees since requiring use of FIDO security keys.”
But FIDO2 is a centralized system, and while it does a wonderful job with security, it does not offer individuals complete control of their own data.
On the other hand, SSI is a set of open digital identity standards that gives individuals control over the information they use to prove who they are. It can be used to exchange data between issuers, holders, and verifiers without the involvement of any central authority.
You can think of your SSI as a non-transferable, non-fungible token (NFT) or smart contract that allows you to choose what data you wish to reveal and have them verified by anyone you authorize to view them on a public blockchain.
Web3 has the potential to “flip the script” for marketers. Instead of collecting email addresses and hoping to tag users with some form of digital ID, a potential customer could enter your funnel by allowing you to know their identity via their SSI. This would allow you (the marketer) to follow the customer’s digital wallet and have access to the data the individual wanted you to have about them. With this subtle shift, it now becomes possible for you to create a system where both you (the marketer) and the user (potential customer) can both share in the value you create. ...
Read the full story here: https://www.shellypalmer.com/2022/12/imagining-the-future-of-fandom/?mc_cid=d41cbc819e&mc_eid=116e9f337b
‘The Peripheral’ and 9 Other Shows that Features Cutting-Edge Virtual Reality
PhilNote: some of these I hadn't heard of!
See the full story here: https://collider.com/the-peripheral-best-shows-about-virtual-reality/
Autonomous Cruising Technology Is Poised to Transform Superyacht Design. Here’s How.
PhilNote: Very Fritz Lang's Metropolis. It really takes the fun out of being the ship's captain.
Autonomous navigation on superyachts will turn the pilothouse into an augmented-reality center buried below-decks. That frees up prime real estate on top of the superyacht for the owners.
... We could soon see another major transition, this time towards fully autonomous navigation. “When the technologies we’re working on are ready, they’ll bring a revolution to wheelhouse design,” says Massimo Minnella, founder of Team Italia, which specializes in creating custom pilothouses, including the spaceship-looking Air Bridge. ...
Translation: Superyachts may no longer need a conventional bridge on the upper forward deck of the vessel. Designers can use those upper decks with 360-degree, uninterrupted views, for owners and guests. Feadship’s Pure, for instance, has relocated its “Command Center” pilothouse to a lower deck, using 360-degree augmented reality displays to provide clear views of the water, with navigational data projected onto the screen. The captain stands behind a small console deep inside the boat, with no windows, to control the ship. The space that had been a pilothouse is now free for other uses. ...
See the full story here: https://robbreport.com/motors/marine/autonomous-navigation-transform-superyacht-design-1234777654/
Players’ ‘Marjorie Prime’ uses artificial intelligence to probe a family’s real emotional trauma
... That opening conversation speaks to the oddness of this relationship. Marjorie (Fran Martone) converses with a handsome young man who could be her grandchild.
What else does the robot with artificial intelligence not have information about? A lot as it turns out. That includes a trauma that has warped each member of the family.
The Prime tells her: “I’m here for you Marjorie whenever you need me. I have all the time in the world.”
The year is 2062 (given the state of technology the playwright could have set it in 2042). Marjorie was born in 1977. She lives alone aside from this Walter Prime (Jake Spencer), a version of her husband in the early years of their marriage before they had children. ...
Primes don’t have hearts, but they certainly work on the emotions of the humans they interact with, forcing issues to the surface, though not helping to resolve them. ...
See the full story here: https://bgindependentmedia.org/players-marjorie-prime-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-probe-a-familys-real-emotional-trauma/
