A Penny for Your Thoughts

Architecture for this solution is actually quite simple. It’s like your own PC but in the cloud. “Personal Cloud Computer (or rather computing)” with human centric OS (where personal data & shema is at OS level). In this scenario the service apps “come to user” (run inside each individuals own PCC) instead of users data shared to service side. It’s all based on existing mature and scalable tech. Unlike mobiles or PCs your personal cloud computer is always on, always online, can have any number of apps running and connected with other services or PCCs at any given time. Your own PC and mobile can communicate with it privately. All this forms your own private ecosystem. Any solution that require you to share your data outside of your private cloud computer to be able to use the app or service falls second at privacy level.

I'm starting to see a clear pattern emerge. Everybody is working with the existing toolset. This is resulting in lots of 'me-too' products. For example, the Dataswyft Platform and the Inrupt Solid Platform are very close to doing the same thing. StJohn "Singe" Deakins company Data Sapien stands apart with a different approach an SDK for the organization's app, but with similar outcomes. There are digital wallets (PIMS) everywhere and lots of ideas about business models but with no firm commitment behind any of them. Funding for the big ideas is $30M and up, because that's what it takes when you add the word platform after your idea. But still nobody has solved the seventh law of identity which I would argue is the most critical. Jamie Smith talks wisely about customer empowerment which can only happen when you actually have a one-on-one relationship with each customer in real time but offers no technical ideas on how it can be achieved at scale. And as the Bard says - herein lies the challenge - scale down to just a single individual, then scale up to billions of individuals all in real time. No existing solution has solved that challenge. Why not? Because you need to invent a new user interface.

You could write an entire book, transform society, and scale a major business when concisely answering these questions. Q: Are the laws of identity needed? A: Yes. Q: Can existing solutions work? A: Yes. Q: What is the business model? A: It depends. The context of the question is a bit broad. Q: What's the role of PIMS? A: Central ot the entire store. Q: Are web standards important? A: Yes, they are crucial to enable interoperability and to support the 7th law of consistent experience and expectations.