“It seems possible that too much globality in terms of trust leads to loss of granularity and silencing of difference, and too much locality leads to a disturbing filter-bubble effect.”
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Sarah Friend, on turning trust into data. In her essay, published as part of
Process and Protocol festival, the Canadian software artist digs into trust network taxonomies and reveals how
Circles UBI, a community-based currency that Friend co-founded, applies “trust networks and decentralization to a social problem.”