So it is not to be expected that scientific and technological development of civilization will bring events under control, substituting mastery over things for trust as a social mechanism and thus making it unnecessary. Instead, one should expect trust to be increasingly in demand as a means of enduring the complexity of the future which technology will generate.

QUESTION: How does rising social complexity from technology paradoxically demand more interpersonal trust? Worth tracing the mechanism behind this counterintuitive claim.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 130