You’re Not Who You Think You Are

There are few fundamental questions have eluded humans since we started to question and document the world around us. Why are we here? What’s the point of all this? Who am I?

I want to focus on that final question.

Humans are having an identity crisis on a grand scale. Social media accounts, government IDs, employee logins and finstagrams are fragmenting our identity.

Pshh, I know who I am

In the last 50 year we have enjoyed some amazing inventions that have changed the landscape of the world we know.

Friends and family, relationships and communication has moved primarily to digital format. Something like 2.5 billion people have smartphones, and ~3.57 billion have access to the internet also amazing 2 billion of those users are from developing countries.

Most of the readers of this are likely familiar with the explosive growth of the internet and the rapid developments we see in our lives. Eg. apps around convenience, improved quality of life, and ease of access.

With the proliferation of digital communication as means for almost all business and personal relationships we’ve needed to establish a digital identity or virtual alias.