What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption. The Sharing Economy. America's Post-Ownership Future - Derek Thompson - Business. We were promised an "ownership society.
"* It was President George W. Bush's campaign slogan when he ran for reelection in 2004. The comforting term invoked responsibility and stability. It connoted a patchwork of plots, homes, and fences extending into the horizon of every city suburb. So much for campaign promises. "Spawned by a confluence of the economic crisis, environmental concerns, and the maturation of the social web, an entirely new generation of businesses is popping up" enabling the sharing of DVDs, cars, clothes, and skills, she writes.
Do more, own less, rent the rest. Sacks provides much more than an inventory of the sharing economy (at a glimpse: THREDUP.COM shares used kids clothes and toys, LIQUIDSPACE.COM helps you find rentable work spaces; NEIGHBORGOODS.NET helps neighbors share appliances and tools). Let's assume that the sharing economy isn't a fad, but rather a foreshadowing. The sharing economy offers a new lens for the producer-consumer. A prototype of the future. We Just Went Through 200 Years of Radical Economic Upheaval. September 17, 2010 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Editor's Note: The following essay is a deep-think attempt to re-imagine the fundamental concepts of how modern societies can restructure their economies and how citizens can reorder their lives in a more democratic fashion. The author considers the emerging technologies of the future and the huge problems posed by industrial economics. Proposing a Design Economy. The 4 Elements of Social Capitalism. All of us have been enabled to use social media as the means to build social capital that enhances our individual and our collective economies.
Each of our benefits can be significantly enhanced if the “system” of social media is continuously improved. Improvement will only come if we all learn to use appropriate and relevant knowledge to improve the value social media affords us. For our individual and collective “economic systems” to improve each of us must learn to apply methods that improve our social currency as we chart our course aimed at results we want to produce. Improvement of any system requires knowledge. The elements of knowledge required to improve the use of social media are: 1. People must understand the system he or she is attempting to manage.
Future Positive » Gift Economy. This single page contains words and links related to the gift economy that have been posted here at Future Positive and at CommUnity of Minds.
Also see: GIFTegrity, Read the Scientific Basis for the GIFTegrity, and the Specifications for a GIFTegrity. The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture by Eric Steven Raymond To understand the role of reputation in the open-source culture, it is helpful to move from history further into anthropology and economics, and examine the difference between exchange cultures and gift cultures. Human beings have an innate drive to compete for social status; it’s wired in by our evolutionary history. Most ways humans have of organizing are adaptations to scarcity and want. The simplest way is the command hierarchy. Our society is predominantly an exchange economy. Most people have implicit mental models for both of the above, and how they interact with each other. Gift cultures are adaptations not to scarcity but to abundance. The Joy of Hacking Not really. Ressources libres/Copyleft. eLearn.