The New Handshake
The internet accelerates the pace of life and business. It promotes rapid communication and interaction. Each such interaction requires a contractual arrangement, some handshake that, figurative or literal, communicates and commits to the terms of the relationship. From social networks to licenses to finance, and among and between both people and businesses, the web of these handshakes grows dense and tangled. It is this fundamental handshake that I wish to examine and redesign in this thesis.