Saturday, November 10, 2007

Trust in the Digital Age

A number of questions regarding trust in the digital age:

  • In the new world of internet communication how do people build trust?
  • If I am in email communication with you how do you come to build a collaborative relationship with me?
  • If you are a blogger, how do your readers come to a position on being able to act on or respond to your comments?
  • What leads me to a level of trust that I post a comment on your site with my own name?
  • There seems to be great promotion about how all in the economy eventually will be handled digitally. Will things move faster when there is some physical interface?
  • At what point in digital networks in degrees of separation do trust and respect stretch thin and no longer flow?
  • Do the bonds of trust reduce geometrically the more connections involved?
  • How fragile are digital bonds of trust?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What leads me to a level of trust that I post a comment on your site with my own name?

To post a potentially controversial comment to any blog under my own name, I would have to trust everyone in the world who might read that blog now or at any time in the future. (With Google, old comments never die.) That's a LOT of trust.