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. Today, we're suffering a crisis of ownership, and Bush's slogan reads like an epitaph to an era of hyperconsumption.
"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). Corporations are already responding. Emergence Collective | a prototype of the future. 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. For the 90% of that history that ran before the invention of agriculture, our ancestors lived in small nomadic hunting-gathering bands. High-status individuals (those most effective at informing coalitions and persuading others to cooperate with them) got the healthiest mates and access to the best food. The simplest way is the command hierarchy. The Joy of Hacking. Ressources libres/Copyleft. eLearn.