{"id":132,"date":"2006-09-21T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/michael-graves-said-something-profound-the-other-day"},"modified":"2006-09-21T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T08:01:00","slug":"michael-graves-said-something-profound-the-other-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/michael-graves-said-something-profound-the-other-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Graves Said Something Profound the Other Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

He<\/a> said:<\/p>\n

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If it doesn’t have a URL, it doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This happened to be in a hallroom conversation at Digital Identity World<\/a>, in the context of URL-based digital identity. But his insight is much broader.<\/p>\n

The thought that immediately springs to my mind is Wag The Dog<\/a>‘s "Of course it’s true; I saw it on TV."<\/i> It’s that kind of profound.<\/p>\n

Assume the internet keeps growing at the same rate for another decade or more. In some sense, it will be larger than meatspace. Assume innovations like tagging<\/a> keep springing up in the future: tagging would have been impossible without all things worth tagging having URLs. URLs give those things a handle, a way of attaching to them. No URL, no way of attaching to them… and they disappear from sight.<\/p>\n

If there’s a thing changing in the forest and nobody can attach to it, does it make a sound<\/a>, ahem I mean, does the thing really exist?<\/p>\n

This argument has of course been the essence of why we came up with URL-based identity<\/a> in the first place: people matter, so they should have URLs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He said:. If it doesn’t have a URL, it doesn’t exist. This happened to be in a hallroom conversation at Digital Identity World, in the context of URL-based digital identity. But his insight is much broader. The thought that immediately springs to my mind is Wag The Dog’s "Of course it’s true; I saw it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital_identity","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}