@Ivan: But can we trust it? --- Ivan said: ' It is clear to me that internet is a huge platform to make business therefore we need to trust it.' ... Perhaps, we need to be able to trust it. Can we trust it? I don't think it's about trusting the internet per se, but about trusting the companies we use. I check reviews and ratings, I use companies I know. The internet is a channel I use. So is the mail service. I trust both, although sometimes the internet is attacked, or my connection fails. Sometimes my snail mail takes forever to arrive, sometimes it just gets lost. But I trust both channels.

I do not trust all mail order companies, nor do I trust all internet companies. I cannot say I don't trust Facebook: I pretty much know the evil it brings, and I either accept it or I don't. I cannot say I do not trust Google -- actually, I trust it to sell my data, misuse my data, and collect and process my data to discern my patterns. It's what they do.

What exactly do we want to trust? What's missing? Who do we want to trust, and with what?

Source author: Ginger (Virginia) Paque VirginiaP@diplomacy.edu