processing capability, language facilities and memory
mechanisms to support these higher level needs.
Underlying the cognitive facilities is a
hierarchical credentialing facility through which trust is established by way
of the experiential identity of individuals. Trust in experiential identity,
expressed as reputation, may be associated with the trusted establishment of differential
identity. Differential identity is grounded in the mechanisms that respond to
the safety and security needs of the device and of the bearer. Among these
mechanisms is the linkage of the device to the individual through biometric
sensors effected in response to physiological needs. With the added
physiological capabilities of self-contained power, time determination and
location determination, the transcendent personal device truly establishes a
deictic center for the device bearer within cyberspace.
In the following chapter, we will delve a
bit more deeply into the relationship between the trust infrastructure and
associated interaction mechanisms through which the device will actually
function. We will base this consideration of what we perceive to be the most
ancient means of establishing trust in human interactions; prayer.
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