Rachel Botsman

If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust?From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust--far from it. In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping point of one of the biggest social transformations in human history--with fundamental consequences for everyone. A new world order is emerging: we might have lost faith in institutions and leaders, but millions of people rent their homes to total strangers, exchange digital currencies, or find themselves trusting a bot. This is the age of "distributed trust," a paradigm shift driven by innovative technologies that are rewriting the rules of an all-too-human relationship. If we are to benefit from this radical shift, we must understand the mechanics of how trust is built, managed, lost, and repaired in the digital age. In the first book to explain this new world, Botsman provides a detailed map of this uncharted landscape--and explores what's next for humanity.

How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

Who Can You Trust?

Roo Rogers

Kevin Foley

The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

What's Mine Is Yours

“Amidst a thousand tirades against the excesses and waste of consumer society, What’s Mine Is Yours offers us something genuinely new and invigorating: a way out.” —Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air and The Ghost Map A groundbreaking and original book, What’s Mine is Yours articulates for the first time the roots of "collaborative consumption," Rachel Botsman and Roo Roger's timely new coinage for the technology-based peer communities that are transforming the traditional landscape of business, consumerism, and the way we live. Readers captivated by Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, Van Jones’ The Green Collar Economy or Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point will be wowed by this landmark contribution to the evolving ecology of commerce and sustainability.

An idea-fueled book that explores the rise of new economic models based on shared resources and collective consumption--and the first articulation of a major socioeconomic phenomenon

How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live

What's Mine is Yours

Di chi possiamo fidarci? Come la tecnologia ci ha uniti e perché potrebbe dividerci

How Technology Brought Us Together - And Why It Could Drive Us Apart

Wem kann man noch trauen? Der Regierung? Den Wirtschaftsunternehmen? Den Medien? Das Vertrauen in die Institutionen und ihre Führungskräfte ist auf einem historischen Tiefststand. Andererseits handeln wir mit digitalen Währungen, vertrauen Bots, unterhalten uns mit Smart Speakern. Die Vertrauensforscherin Rachel Botsman erklärt diesen von innovativen Technologien getriebenen Paradigmenwechsel. Sie beschreibt, wie sich die Welt in einem Zeitalter des "verteilten Vertrauens" neu ordnet. Worauf es jetzt ankommt? Untereinander, unseren Mitmenschen, Kunden und Firmenpartnern Vertrauensbrücken zu bauen, um die entstandenen Vertrauenslücken zu überwinden. Botsman erläutert, wie es geht. Vertrauen Sie ihr.

Die Antwort auf die vielleicht wichtigste Frage unserer Zeit

Wem kannst du trauen?

In the 20th century humanity consumed products faster than ever, but this way of living is no longer sustainable. This new and important book shows how technological advances are driving forms of ‘collaborative consumption’ which will change forever the ways in which we interact both with businesses and with each other.

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