Honesty by Technological Verification

Twenty eight years ago when I entered the hospitality industry lie detection was a required instrument to fish through your staff to find the unworthy employee, I.E., the truth.  Most times the detection would not fester out the individual who was being tested, rather that person would rat out a co worker.  


Now with the technological tools provided by the internet, social networks, plagiarism detection software and information exchange algorithms we are all subjected to instant information verification.  This expedition is not just a tool to check down the ladder
of the business hierarchy, it allows the verification up the ladder; where C-level to the 
board room's credentials, proposals and presentations can be instantly proven.  
Included in this has been President Obama's virtual polygraph exam.


Per Michael Schrage blog  -  "But the real revolution emerging is not the greater transparency of a LinkedIn here and the statistical significance of a "lie detection" algorithm there; it's their linkage, fusion and aggregation."
Interesting that as we have advanced, we still just seek the truth.