Rachel Botsman has spent over a decade thinking about the “sharing economy.” As an author and a visiting academic at the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School, who researches how technology is transforming trust, she’s an authority on the subject. She’s also one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People. She is currently writing a book, due out next fall, about the new decentralized economies and how that has changed trust. I recently chatted with
How has technology changed the way we trust?
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