To break this down one more way - first we make a meaningless but unique identification: this platypus is "eae5bb3b-9b08-4079-a32d-e789ec2fe2d6". The topic of today's post - the say - provides a protocol through which anyone can attach language to the meaningless IDs the system gives to the world, such that those who have something to share about a real thing can attach digital stuff to that language in addition to the ID itself. In response to that, at the highest level, the purpose of the system I'm proposing is to allow anyone to attach any digital payload to any real person, place, thing, or idea, and for anyone else to have access to those payloads with no intermediary. Rather, we should enable connecting digital things to language, and focus on enabling users to choose the descriptions of the world that best suit their needs and perspective.
That idea doesn’t scale, creates artificial scarcity, reinforces existing power structures, and creates digital landlords in the process.
Much of the current thinking about a future AR centers exclusively on connecting digital things directly to real people, places, and things. We're skipping over that first hashing step for now to focus on the say because almost every other piece of this system is incidental - just a scaffolding - whereas the say is at the heart of the design. This infographic was heavily inspired by the somewhat-related image on this explainer page about the Semantic Web.
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