[ssss11]

Who came up with this pyramid? And why should technologies of the self be at the top? I feel like identity should be much lower and is much more fundamental but the way the internet was constructed it was missed. Or it was never built for “users”. It’s the databases of data brokers.

[dredmorbius]

Based on the line "Here’s my crack at what the hierarchy of innovation looks like", I'd presume the author did.

Based on "there’s a hierarchy of innovation that runs in parallel with Abraham Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs", it's, well, strongly influenced by Maslow's hierarchy (which seemed immediately evident to me simply based on the pyramidal shape and nature of the levels).

[smitty1e]

The Famous Article allows that it's based upon Maslow's hierarchy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs