I remember the time when to renew your passport, you had to get your passport photograph verified as a true likeness of yourself by a respected and trustworthy member of the community; A policeman perhaps or a teacher or doctor.
What a jolt then to our deeply embeded assumptions that a terrorist attack could be lead by a bunch of doctors - as appears the case in the recent Glasgow airport incident.
In this new world, no longer can we simply assume that some people are to be trusted and some not. Maybe this is why Harold Shipman could carry out such a long campaign of horror - maybe no one could accept that a doctor could be capable of carrying out such acts of murder - it simply does not compute in our assumption-lead heads
So if the assumption that a doctor is a person of respect and trustworthyness no longer holds true, what creative opportunity now opens up for some creative thinking individuals?
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And that raises the interesting question of "in the new world, who do we trust?"
Systems like Ebay and Amazon may have changed our thinking a bit based upon community trust - we look at the buyers ratings to help us work out if someone is trustworthy.
I wonder if we will reach that stage with e.g., doctors - perhaps it has already happened.
And, of course, going in the completely opposite direction, maybe we will learn to pay much more attention to our intuition. Perhaps we could have spotted the dodgy doctors through one conversation?
hmmm and as the likes of ebay and Amazon grow and grow..... can we (or are we happy to) trust these massive organisations to have our best interests at heart ... maybe it could force a turn toward our freindly neighbourhood mom'n'pop corner shops again. In which case we only trust those that we know or are recommended by a friend. Wouldnt it be great if I could check the feedback ratings that my freinds have made - if its good enough for him, then its good enough for me!
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