Your phone – and the online world – know you perfectly. It knows your face, your preferences, and your payment details. It anticipates what you want before you ask. So why, when AI has made our digital lives frictionless and intuitive, does the physical world still ask you to prove who you are? Step into any airport, offices and hospitals and the world around you reverts to the 20th century, asking for tickets, badges and manual checks.
For all the progress AI has made in our digital lives, it has remained trapped behind glass, forcing the physical world to ask us again and again to prove who we are. Finally, that’s changing. still asks us to prove who we are.
For years, now, we have been forced to tap, swipe, and scan in an outdated infrastructure, built for a pre-intelligent era. The digital world long ago learned to recognize us. The physical world still asks us to prove who we are. The gap between these two realities is no longer just an inconven
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