Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
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Rating | : | 4.18 (920 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1541773675 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-03-26 |
Language | : | English |
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If we are to benefit from this radical shift, we must understand the mechanics of how trust is built, managed, lost and repaired in the digital age. If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. A new world order is emerging: we might have lost faith in institutions and leaders, but millions of people rent their home to total strangers, exchange digital currencies, or find themselves trusting a bot. But this isn't the age of
"Who Can You Trust is beautifully written primer for a new world that sets you up to be a better citizen, consumer, and parent. I quickly learnt so much about so many things I wanted to know."Sherry Turkle, Professor, MIT; author of Reclaiming Conversation and Alone Together
Rachel Botsman is a world-renowned expert on trust, whose three TED talks on the topic have been viewed over 3.5 million times. She writes for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Wired and more. Rachel was named one of the world's top twenty speakers to keynote your conference by Monocle, one of the M