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The game changer is that in old forms of information and news, you could kind of take what I

call a trust pause. You could slow down and you could say, is this person, is this product, is it worthy of my trust?

And we don't do that anymore because everything is designed around speed and efficiency.

I mean, you talk to most entrepreneurs.

It's about taking out the friction.

Rachel Botsman really knows it feels like the world just keeps getting faster and faster.

And she wants us to take these pauses, trust pauses more often.

She's an expert researcher on trust and on how technology is upending this bedrock element of being human.

For the first time in history, we could trust strangers mediated through technology in ways

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