# Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together – and Why It Could Drive Us Apart

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/who-can-you-trust-how-technology-brought-us-together-and-why-it-could-drive-us-apart/
- Published: 2018-09-12T12:26:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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. But this isn’t the 
age of distrust – far from it.**

In this book trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping point
of one of the biggest social transformations in human history – with fundamental
consequences for everyone. A new world order is emerging: we might have lost faith
in institutions and leaders, but millions of people travel in cars with total strangers,
exchange digital currencies, or find themselves trusting a bot. This is the age 
of “distributed trust”, a paradigm shift driven by innovative technologies that 
are rewriting the rules of an all-too-human relationship.

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. In the first 
book to explain this new world, Botsman provides a detailed map of this uncharted
landscape – and explores what’s next for humanity.

## Reviews

A timely and accessible framework for understanding what trust is, how it works,
why it matters and how it is evolving. It is an important primer to the obstacles
and opportunities we face as a society if we are to repair and redefine trust across
socioeconomic, political and cultural divides. The stakes are high. 
– **Rebecca
MacKinnon** ― _Washington Post_

## WATCH: We’ve stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers