[extropy-chat] Question re shedding identity on net, etc.

[Natasha Vita-More]

If I had been following all the threads on identity I would know if my 
question has been answered.  Sorry if this is repetitive, but please spare 
me a moment if you can:

What interfaces are used to follow us around the net and pick up the 
remains of all our presence everywhere we go?  For example, if every place 
we go and everything we say is shed vis-a-vis all the codes we communicate 
with, what are the latest and greatest high tech software/hardware devices 
that track us?

I am writing on skin exobody and a small section on identity.  In this 
section I am making a comparison between Gattaca and the central character 
being careful about the millions of dead skin cells that fall from his body 
and how he has to be meticulous about not letting any of them get detected, 
in which case would reveal his real identity.  In my skin exobody I am 
referring to code as the a metaphor of skin and how every time we log in 
and send a message,  or appear in simulated environments, we are shedding 
part of our identity through linkages to our home base computer, which for 
this purpose becomes a boundary between us and all else.

Thanks,
Natasha

<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
Cultural Strategist - Design Media Artist - Futurist
PhD Candidate, 
<http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/researchcover/rcp.asp?pagetype=G&page=273>Planetary 
Collegium
Proactionary Principle Core Group, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy 
<http://www.extropy.org/>Institute
Member, <http://www.profuturists.com/>Association of Professional Futurists
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture

If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the circle, 
then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the 
circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system 
perspective. - Buckminster Fuller


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