How is trust built? Why do we find it easy to trust Airbnb, and stay in a stranger’s house rather than a hotel?
Like you, I was told to never get in a car with a stranger.
Yet millions of people call Uber daily and place their faith with total strangers.
The concept of trust, what it means, and how it is changing is what author Rachel Botsman discusses in her TEDSummit 2016 talk.
According to Botsman, our society is shifting away from institutional trust (trust in governments, corporations, banks) toward distributed trust.
A new recipe for trust is emerging that once again is distributed amongst people and is accountability-based.
This new model for trust is driven by technology, making trust more local and places trust back in our hands.
A trust that makes us more accountable.
People are taking what Botsman calls a trust leap.
Watch the video and learn how this new distributive model of trust is enabling us to trust unknown people and ideas.
Source: TED
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