The more digital society and economy become, the more the focus shifts to human interaction with the virtual world. Technical issues are gradually taking a step back. People cease to be mere users and become an integral part of a digitalized system. Digitalization becomes digitality (The Digital Condition, Felix Stalder, Polity, 2017). The term...

Rachel Botsman speaks of a “trust shift” which we currently experience. She defines trust not so much as a risk assessment technique but as our relationship to the unknown. In her view, “trust leaps” have shaped and changed fundamentally political and economic conditions over the centuries. Now we are at a new crossroads, placing...