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. Widespread corruption, elitism and economic disparity have led to a worldwide upsurge of anti-establishment movements. But this isn't the age of distrust - far from it.
In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping point of one of the biggest social transformations in human history. A new world order is emerging- we have lost faith in brands, leaders and systems, but millions of people every day rent their home to total strangers on AirBnB, exchange cryptocurrency online, or get in the car of an unknown Uber driver. This is the age of distributed trust; a paradigm shift driven by new technologies that are rewriting the rules of an all-too-human relationship.
If we are to benefit from this radical transformation, it is vital that we understand the new mechanics of how trust is built, managed, lost and repaired. In Who Can You Trust?, Botsman provides a detailed map of this uncharted landscape - and explores what's next for humanity.
Author Biography
Rachel Botsman is a world-renowned expert on an explosive new era of trust and technology, whose TED talks on the topic have been viewed over 4 million times. She is an award-winning author, speaker and lecturer at Oxford University's Said Business School. Rachel writes and comments regularly for The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, AFR, The Guardian, and more.
She is also the co-author of, What's Mine is Yours- How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live (HarperCollins, 2010), which predicted the rise of platforms such as Airbnb, TaskRabbit and Uber, long before they became popular and was named one of TIME's "Ten Ideas That'll Change the World".
Rachel was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business and one of the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50.
