
Scaling Trust and Other Fictions
NB: This post is part of the “Skepticism About Information Fiduciaries” symposium. Other contributions can be found here. The Centenal Cycle, the Hugo-nominated trilogy by novelist Malka Older, describes a not-too-distant future in which the existing liberal world order has been replaced by a regime of mass-mediated micro-democracy. With some exceptions—a handful of so-called null states…