My thoughts around identity mirror your own, as fundamentally it needs to be a difficult to automate and unique function, if we keep optional anonymity (which I'm strongly in favor of!).
I think there's a lot of unexplored opportunity in federated opaque attestation. I.e. this service attests that this user has this much value on it (where value is history + quality), but no additional information. Then that can be aggregated as proof for new service user bootstrapping. Done well, you could do away with captchas.
Similarly, the communication prerequisite for healthy democracy has become apparent over the past 30 years. Without accurate and digestible information, enough people make dumb decisions that democracy produces bad outcomes. Something that realigns {what I want} with {what will make that happen} would be incredibly valuable.
My thoughts around identity mirror your own, as fundamentally it needs to be a difficult to automate and unique function, if we keep optional anonymity (which I'm strongly in favor of!).
I think there's a lot of unexplored opportunity in federated opaque attestation. I.e. this service attests that this user has this much value on it (where value is history + quality), but no additional information. Then that can be aggregated as proof for new service user bootstrapping. Done well, you could do away with captchas.
Similarly, the communication prerequisite for healthy democracy has become apparent over the past 30 years. Without accurate and digestible information, enough people make dumb decisions that democracy produces bad outcomes. Something that realigns {what I want} with {what will make that happen} would be incredibly valuable.