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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:<br><br>
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?<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Thanks,<br>
Natasha<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Cultural Strategist - Design Media Artist - Futurist
<dd>PhD Candidate,
<a href="http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/researchcover/rcp.asp?pagetype=G&page=273">
Planetary Collegium </a>
<dd>Proactionary Principle Core Group,
<a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy
</a><a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a> <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>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. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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