The future is Decentralized - you have very large actors working to deploy systems based on the Verifiable Credentials (VC) Data Model (W3C Standard) and the Decentralized Identifiers (soon to be W3C Standard) extensive work is being done on how the data is exchanged (Credential Handler API, OpenID Connect Self Issued Identity Provider (OIDC_SOIP) <- so any installed openID can accept VCs and DID Communications (spec under development at the Decentralized Identity Foundation). Actors supporting this work include wester liberal governments, MSFT, IBM and many many others many cool small startups. We gather twice a year at the Internet Identity Workshop. Our archives for the last 10 years are online.