Foresight Study on Digital Trust in Taiwan for 2040

People's daily lives are more and more embedded to the digital environment, including the use of digital technology in everyday lives and exchange messages through various social medias and other online platforms. However, the “trust” in the digital world is always a central issue. There could be at least two dimensions of digital trust, the mechanical digital trust and relational digital trust. The “mechanical digital trust” is related to the issues like cybersecurity, transparency, fair and other issues on technology mechanism. Instead, the “relational digital trust” is concerned more about how the people’s attitude toward to the technology, the experience of using technology and how to make people feel that digital technology is trustworthy. Different generations and social economic classes maybe have different way of trust building process with the new technology. Practically, in the coming years and decades we may expect to see the artificial intelligence and robot will more involve in our daily lives. Are we well prepared to live with the robot at home? Are we expected the robot become a caregiver to take care the elders? This session welcomes papers to discuss the issue of digital trust and foresight with empirical studies, scenarios and other innovative ways of thinking.