Smart Contracts and the Future of Trust Podcast

Would you want live in a trustless society? We go our entire lives trusting people around us, often strangers who we’ve never dealt with before. But rarely do we stop to think why. In this video Futurist Chris Crespo unpacks the different ways in which trust has been outsourced from individuals to central institutions and increasingly more, over to technology. We may be moving towards a system where the need for trust enabling intermediaries like Central Banks and Governments will be replaced by computer code, but what tradeoffs would we need to make at a personal and societal level for this to come about?