In the analogue life, a home owner's identity
was made secure by the strength of their front door.
Where, when television tried to instruct citizens
on who to let through that door, and who to block,
television presenters found they were stuck.
When they wanted to show the public the genuine
identity card of a gas, or electricity, board man
(they were always men, and such boards were all there were)
the television presenters could not show what such a card
should look like. Criminals watched television too:
anything that television showed could be adapted
by those who it was unadvisable to let through door.
Fast forward forty years, and life is now online,
with pale echoes of it so many places digitally,
everywhere except where that life started.
Criminality is now mobile and international,
it flows from country to country, and is impossible to stop.
Even the digitally savvy are ripe for being easily mislead.
What value identity when who we are is more about
us being a target for theft, than us being who we say we are?
No comments:
Post a Comment