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Who Can You Trust?
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Who Can You Trust?

How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

Rachel Botsman
Public Affairs, 2017

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Innovative
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Rachel Botsman’s extensive research and broad grasp of business, geopolitics, psychology, social trends and technology yields a captivating exploration of why people trust, how they should trust and the revolutionary ways society is moving to new forms of trust and “trust mechanisms.” Her brilliant, original analysis introduces fascinating stories to illustrate trends she supports with data, facts and evidence. Botsman’s work, though repetitive at times, is mesmerizing and offers a valuable window into the past, present and future of trust, a force that is central to your life.

Take-Aways

  • In the past, people reserved trust for those in their immediate circle or tribe.
  • As societies and economies grew, individuals extended their trust to institutions.
  • Lately, faith in institutions has been eroded, and it continues to decline. Trust, like energy, cannot be destroyed and instead changes form.

About the Author

Rachel Botsman, co-author of What’s Mine Is Yours and lecturer at Oxford University, writes and researches about how technology is transforming trust.

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