Wikinet.group.echonet. Jeffs_law_sharing_VOV. The Dark Side to the Collaborative Economy. The New Sharing Economy. Technology is connecting individuals to information, other people, and physical things in ever-more efficient and intelligent ways.
It’s changing how we consume, socialize, mobilize— ultimately, how we live and function together as a society. In a global economy where the means of production are becoming increasingly decentralized, where access is more practical than ownership, what do the successful businesses of the future need to know? What’s changed about our psychology of sharing? Is money the only, or even the most valuable, currency anymore? How can Web, mobile and real-time technologies continue to fuel sharing? The Master List of the Collaborative Economy: Rent and Trade Everything. My next Open Research report (see my body of research) will be about the Rise of the Collaborative Economy.
If you’d like to be interviewed for this upcoming report, please fill out this submission form. In my career as an analyst, I often list all the players in a category, announce a formal research effort, then publish a series of analyses, as part of my continuing methodology.