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If we can increase our confidence in the skills and reliability of those we connect with online, powerful new possibilities will open up. It has the potential to reshape business, education and society.
Last time, I wrote about the implications of automated online trust. So what are some of the biggest ways the world will change if we can automate online trust?
A qualifier: If we could create online trust 100%, with no false negative (I mistrust someone when I shouldn’t) and no false positive (I fail to trust someone I should), it would exceed what we have in the real world. We could use it as the ultimate lie detector. But, even though this is a thought experiment, I’ll keep this within bounds. Let’s just equate online trust with the equivalent in the offline world. (This will also save me from knotty philosophical problems around the definition of “truth.”)
Social networks, online video, mobile communications and search engines can help us find our ways to great questions — or maybe not.
Can technology help us gain the benefits of working across disciplines?
