Multiple identities

Sam Lessin’s observation in “The Information” that if a result of the pandemic is more online working, online commerce, online education, online government and so on, then digital identity becomes a pivot because “if the jobs people need are in digital rather than physical space, the internet’s side of the fight will gain a lot of power” is accurate and I echo Sam’s view that online “people are free to create, maintain and destroy as many identities as they want”. This just one of the reasons why a digital identity is not simple an electronic shadow of the physical identity but something more sophisticated and so difficult for people to understand. But we must make the effort