How to Stop the Hijacking of Human Weaknesses

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i think nuclear weapons represent humans coming face to face with godlike power to destroy ourselves i think scaling it down to a much more easier to deal with issue was the chemical industry. Some of the solutions actually rely lie in friction that's spoken about in the past this idea of trust pauses. The efficiency of technology is kind of the enemy of trust and so to stop the hijacking of human weaknesses are there ways that we can design these trust pauses into systems?

We are in the middle of a global trust crisis. Neighbors are strangers and local news sources are becoming scarcer; institutions that used to symbolize prestige, honor and a sense of societal security are ridiculed for being antiquated and out of touch. To replace the void, we turn to sharing economy companies and social media, which come up short, or worse. Our guest on this episode, academic and business advisor Rachel Botsman, guides us through how we got here, and how to recover. Botsman is the Trust Fellow at Oxford University, and the author of two books, including “Who Can You Trust?” The intangibility of trust makes it difficult to pin down, she explains, and she speaks directly to technology leaders about fostering communities and creating products the public is willing to put faith in. “The efficiency of technology is the enemy of trust,” she says.