The missing ingredient in each of these stories is trust. Everybody is trying to kill it—criminals, technocrats, politicians, you name it. Not long ago, Disney was the only company selling a Fantasyland, but now that’s the ambition of every tech empire. The trust crisis could hardly be more intense.But it’s hidden from view because so much information exists. We live in an abundant culture, especially in the digital world. So it’s hard to believe that anything in the information economy is scarce. Whatever you want, you can get—and usually for free. You can have free news, free music, free videos, free everything. But you get what you pay for, as the saying goes. And it was never truer than right now—when all this free stuff is starting to collapse in a fog of fakery and phoniness.