Book contents
- The Trust Revolution
- The Trust Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Riding with Strangers
- Part I
- 1 The Collapse of Trust
- 2 Hiding in Plain Sight
- 3 Trust and Human Flourishing
- 4 A Typology of Trust
- 5 The Genealogy of Trust
- 6 The Market for Trust
- Part II
- Part III
- Index
5 - The Genealogy of Trust
from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 July 2019
- The Trust Revolution
- The Trust Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Riding with Strangers
- Part I
- 1 The Collapse of Trust
- 2 Hiding in Plain Sight
- 3 Trust and Human Flourishing
- 4 A Typology of Trust
- 5 The Genealogy of Trust
- 6 The Market for Trust
- Part II
- Part III
- Index
Summary
There have been four main epochs of human history and new forms of trust have arisen in each. In fact, these trust innovations – what we have called “social technologies” of trust – have made the transition from one epoch to another possible. After all, Homo sapiens are thought to have outcompeted Neanderthals in large part because of our ability to communicate and transmit knowledge more efficiently than trial and error. Our social technologies of trust enabled our ancestors to communicate, to cooperate, to exchange, and to expand our locus of trust in ways that enabled the survival of our species.
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- The Trust RevolutionHow the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business and Government, pp. 50 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019