This created vast new opportunities in the sharing economy, while helping to change the nature of travel in its own way.
That reminds me that books have a noble heritage in the sharing economy.
The law isn't always certain of what to make of the sharing economy.
Digital hippies are creating a sharing economy -- one that includes creations like Wikipedia, Airbnb and Lyft -- without a focus on exchanging cash.
The current companies won't be the only major players in the sharing economy: they'll spawn a new phase of innovation from outsiders trying to fix the problems.
One of the major questions about the sharing economy or collaborative consumption companies is how these services affect local economies and what economic benefits they bring.
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San Francisco has set up a San Francisco Sharing Economy Working Group with startups such as Airbnb and Getaround to figure out some of these issues.
On regulation facing collaborative consumption companies, Shelby Clark, founder of RelayRides, said reputation systems in sharing economy can help with trust, verification of identities and other goals of regulation.
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The sharing economy is known for providing extra cash for owners, but these services also provide a better experience for consumers, Nate Blecharczyk cofounder and CTO of Airbnb said in a panel at South By Southwest on Saturday.
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While the subscription economy is growing on the back of cloud computing, so too the sharing economy and the renting economy are growing but on the back of changing attitudes to ownership and the social element of transactions.
But Comcast and its peers also face a long-term slowdown in the pay-TV business as increased competition and a soft economy see distributors sharing a smaller overall pool of total viewers.
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But now, four years after Zimbabwe tied its currency to the dollar and a power-sharing coalition took control, stabilizing the economy and the government, Christensen and many others like him are starting to work again in the landscape they know best and love most.
But, as Frigstad explained at the discussion, the disruption of today's network economy, which will enable vehicle sharing start-ups, might actually be good news for the rest of us.
The power-sharing deal is expected to keep Zimbabwe's melting economy from a total collapse: Its official inflation rate of 231 million percent is the world's worst, and the United Nations estimates that 5 million people need urgent food aid.
"The kibbutz has changed vastly in the last decade and a half, from a community dependent solely on agriculture to a diverse, entrepreneurial and innovative economy which still retains its core values of sharing, " said Leah Kayman, educator and public relations director at Ketura.
The concept is like share economy services like Airbnb or Getaround, except users are sharing their data plans.
The power-sharing government has ended years of hyperinflation by using the US dollar, but the economy remains fragile, correspondents say.
As technol advances, we must KEEP adding adding more wealth sharing in order to stabilize the inequality at fair levels that will allow the machine economy to grow, while at the same time, actually making life better for everyone, not just the rich.
The risk is that failure to agree on a new wave of openness during a period (the past two years) in which the world economy has been growing at its fastest for three decades, with more countries sharing in that growth than ever before, will set a sour political note for what may well be tougher times ahead.
If the economy continues to languish, can these investments in the 23rd daily-deals service or the 47th photo sharing site really pay off?
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