Michael Shea describes four ‘qualities of value’ of newer identity technologies: provenance, persistence, flexibility, and portability. wider.team/2023/03/16/qualit…
Does SSI have a role in fighting electronics counterfeiting? It could. Wider Team is at the SMTA Europe #Counterfeit Electronics and Materials Symposium next week. wider.team/2023/03/09/smta-e…
Existing manufacturing standards are balkanized, with each part of the industry using their own standards to identify parts, materials, processes, and companies. SSI can bridge those standards. More on this after the symposium.
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.... wider.team/2023/02/06/galls-…
When you can't, how do you coerce elegance, simplicity, and resilience from an impossibly intricate, variegated, fragile mass of interconnection and interdependency? That's the challenge.
“Keep memes from overloading the medium” and “Keep cascades from triggering IRL harm” seem like hard problems. Hard on a single platform. Harder in decentralized networks and ecosystems. Even harder if you're governing a whole society. @trustoverip@WiderTeam#Governance
They would like you (the users) to stop squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama so that they can spend their time writing more features and not have to adjudicate your stupid little fights.