Trust and Trustability, part 2

How future society can evaporate in a puff of autonomy

In an earlier post, I discussed how Promise Theory offers an alternative picture of trust–-not as the usual moral imperative for human behaviour, but that of a coarse potential landscape, shaping decisions and relationships, more like something you would find at work in the physical sciences. This second part of the summary and discussion attempts to think about the implications of this understanding of trust to shape our modern worlds, which now include both real and virtual places in…