We are becoming our digital identities.

As we continue to use the internet for buying goods and services these companies are starting a grassroots movement to only use email to communicate. More and more companies are eliminating telephone contact with their customers. Severing the face to face or being to being meeting. These companies are becoming almost wholly virtual. The entire medium of the transaction is digital. No paper trail. Bank accounts existing only digitally. We’re losing the need to establish a 1 to 1 physical relationship to gain their trust. Where once when you wanted to make a trade or deal with another person to do something there would follow an elaborate ritual between each other gauging what we each want and what is the best mutual decision. Our greed fighting someone else’s greed causes us to come to an unspoken agreement that there’s only so much I can get and I’ll have to sacrifice something. And that sacrifice is what we do as nations. We try to gauge what we as a civilization will have to sacrifice and what we will gain. And so our laws that govern us are almost wholly the same. Laws that have been proscribed have their mirrors among many countries, we are agreeing on morality or toleration of each other. What we will and won’t allow of each other. So my need to know where this companies good or service is based physically, who is running it doesn’t matter because the laws of commerce and business are dictating our tolerance. Don’t scam me and I don’t scam you.

We are becoming more and more like our email addresses. We are becoming our digital identities.