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Also, I often think about how much having to write the same name atop everything weake for 12 to 20 years structures our thoughts and sense of self.
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How might we live if there were no institutional records to follow us from one setting to another? Or from one decade to the next?
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What might best be built with anonymous contributions? What things could be distributed to all who want them instead of to those whose status or wealth are checked first?
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What is the net benefit vs harm of lifelong tracking when it comes to education, to criminal acts, to security, to credit, to trust? What about a world where we had to make such decisions without reference to a file for each person?
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Somewhere there are rooms of recordkeepers and sorters, and everywhere there are officials entering new records and checking old ones? Is this the highest use of their/our time?