Tech Giants Told To Up Their Game, As Faith In Institutions Erodes
As technology moves forward, there are also opportunities for so-called bad actors to disrupt and manipulate the free and transparent flow of information. And when information is compromised, trust erodes.
In 2019, we live in a world where trust in our institutions is at a low point. So how did we get here, and how do we force change?
Michael Chertoff, founder of The Chertoff Group and former United States Secretary of Homeland Security, and Jason Wiseman, Special Advisor on Counterterrorism for the European Parliament joined Forbes’ Randall Lane for the final session of Forbes Under 30 Global Retreat In Bratislava.
So from amongst the litany of headlines and governmental concerns, what keeps these cyber security problem-solvers up at night?
Michael Chertoff, part of the George W. Bush administration, takes a step back from specifics to warn on the long-term damage done, “I worry most about the erosion of faith in our institutions. I think our confidence in democratic institutions is at its lowest point for fifty years.”
Chertoff has seen the entire timeline, and makes a pertinent point for Slovaks who came out from behind the Iron Curtain alongside East Germany. He adds, “When the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago there was a tremendous sense of optimism, but we're now back in the midst of a struggle. We need to figure out why trust was lost, and how to we regain it? Because without trust we can't function as a coherent society.”
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