Sharing Economy

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The sharing economy is enormously popular in the UK with well over half the population participating in numerous and varied peer-to-peer markets. Expected to reach a value of £140 billion by 2025, this area is exploding. …

The rise of the platform economy was a revolution: letting people pool resources via the internet to make society more cooperative, the economy more horizontal, and the individual more autonomous. But the shine has worn off quickly, and the platform economy is showing its true colours: erosion of local communities…

In part one, we discussed the importance of the fusion of distributed ledger technology, Artificial Intelligence, Compaction technologies, and Big Data analytics. We laid out some of the opportunities this unlocks for you in the form of a new type of sharing economy. Decentralized IDs, when provided by a trusted…

在集體分享的糖衣下，共享經濟是更嚴峻、更加去管制的資本主義。建立信用或是互惠的評分機制，是讓使用者受制於優步或AirBnB的平台監控 話說女人的衣櫥總是少一件衣服。四名好友腦筋一動，在米蘭創立「我的秘密著裝室」（My secrect dressing room ）網站，參與的姊妹們分享私藏的名牌服飾，變裝選擇多，原本不見天日的衣飾也有再度亮相的機會。 拜科技之賜，「共享經濟」（Sharing Economy）滲透到生活的食衣住行育樂，私廚為網友聚餐烹調，沙發衝浪客和AirBnB讓「我家就是你家」。 共享經濟的溫馨口號 共用腳踏車外，共用汽車像是米蘭壅塞交通、停車一位難求的救星。音樂、訊息、書籍、課程，隨著社交媒體蓬勃，不斷衍生出各式各樣的分享形式。在二○一三年時，與旅館、計程車等傳統租借產業的二千四百億美金營業額相比，共享經濟只有一百五十億。但根據推估，到了二○二五年可望兩分天下，傳統與共享各佔一半全球市場。

Sharing goods and services is a practice that’s been with us since the dawn of humanity. Our previous three articles in this series of five have examined the evolution of the sharing economy, the industries leading the pack, and who, exactly, is doing the sharing. In this fourth instalment we’ll…

The trends and Web3 use cases we’re building our entertainment business on — The Background Whys In 2007, a Californian start-up called Netflix, a mail-based DVD rental service, made headlines when it announced it would start streaming films. Fast forward to today and our entertainment landscape has changed beyond recognition. Greater internet bandwidth and smart TV have allowed streaming video-on-demand (SVOD) services to…

Digital infrastructure has created the sharing economy — where value is in simple connection. The two-sided marketplace joins buyers and sellers on a platform to facilitate direct transactions. By bringing people together, these platforms bring value to both consumers and service providers. The recent growth of the sharing economy is…