The Internet Has Altered the Meaning of "Truth" and "Trust"

The Internet Has Altered the Meaning of "Truth" and "Trust": "As children, we were always told to avoid strangers. Yet today we’re comfortable getting into their cars via Uber or Lyft, or staying in their homes with Airbnb. As our enthusiasm in trusting one another has risen, it’s declined when it comes to institutions, from banks to media outlets to governments. Why is this happening, and what does it have to do with the omnipresence of technology?

This is the subject of a new book called Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together – and Why It Could Drive Us Apart, published on November 14 by PublicAffairs. Its author, Rachel Botsman, is a visiting lecturer at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, and one of the world’s foremost experts on trust. She recently chatted with Futurism about what she learned about trust, why this shift is different than others in the past, and how we avoid a dystopian future."

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And for those who already where trusted strangers the world became stranger when they started to lie about trust. It definitely did alter the meaning of 'stranger' to those who don't connect with you on the internet or disconnect with you IRL. And some in the transition got misconnected and became the infamous smurfs of the 404's. Because an address wasn't only the place where you live anymore and a taboo for gaslighting and the un(pro)filed but also somebody's profile for your phone line to connect to. And one had never to underestimate the lie with the URL -address and the geographical location on the map. Addressing itself needed addressing and that altered thruth and trust in case with misaddressing.
But I never read the book.