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The Third Age of Credit

Originally @ TechCrunch Society is beginning to wake up to a tremendous shift in one of the most fundamental underpinnings to how we live our lives: the   credit   system. Even though it’s not commonly known,   credit   infrastructure has existed about as long as civilization itself. In one way or another,   credit   systems have always formalized the one essential basis for relationships between people: trust. Over millennia, the way  credit  looks, feels and is used has changed dramatically. Today, buoyed by a plethora of technologies and a golden  age  for abundant data,  credit  is undergoing its most radical change yet. But it is being pulled in many directions by competing forces, each with their own vision for the future. In the beginning,  credit  was highly personal and subjective — this persisted for thousands of years. Over the last century, a miracle happened: Driven mostly by statistical modeling,  credit  became for the first time “objective.” Yet today, the cr