[Dave Birch] Over the past couple of years, I’ve become convinced that one reason for the sterility of the debate about identity cards in the UK — which is, of course, one of the most important digital identity initiatives there’s likely to be here — is that "cards" is fundamentally the wrong name. By calling the identity computers of tomorrow "cards", we stunt the thinking and set in place a group of metaphors that lead less technical persons (eg, politicians) to create the wrong infrastructure, an infrastructure that looks backward to centralised databases, closed networks and pieces of cardboard. So what can the ID computers of tomorrow do that the ID cards of the past could not? And why does a privacy-sensitive person such as myself think that ID computers are a good idea?
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