Trust and Trustability

How Promise Theory tells us trust is really an economy of attention

“Trust is one of the most commonplace ideas in our lives, at the root of almost everything we do, and yet it remains an elusive idea that we hand-wave about and even dismiss as part of the moral mystique of the human condition.”

So begins a summary of the Promise Theory of trust, that I’ve worked on as part of a project to understand the role of trust in our modern cybernetic society. Trust is upheld as one of the major challenges in the Internet age…