What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

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Manzini describes diversified access as creating a system whereby users can enter in a number of different ways and get similar results. Dim Dom, a French toy-sharing company, achieves this access by allowing consumers to participate through a number of different entry points—in this case, prices and the period of subscription. The company satisfie

Carlota Perez, a leading economist at Cambridge University and an expert in technoeconomic paradigm shifts. Perez posits that every seventy years, a disruptive technology emerges that alters the foundations of the economy and the norms by which society constructs itself—our homes, our workplaces, our education system, the way we govern, how we spen

models based on memberships (Zipcar, Bag Borrow or Steal), service fees (Airbnb, Zopa), and micropayments for usage (BIXI, BabyPlays) being established. Also, as companies start to redefine themselves as acting as the bridge between individual users and the community, we will trust them more, and as a result interact with them in different ways. Th

The fourth ingredient in Manzini’s design thinking is “enhanced communications support.” Part of the power of Collaborative Consumption is that we possess many of the resources—from actual goods to human talent—to meet our needs. We just need to find ways to coordinate and derive value from them.

The result is an invaluable collective wisdom impossible to replicate elsewhere.

Collaborative Consumption is enabling people to realize the enormous benefits of access to products and services over ownership, and at the same time save money, space, and time;

The convergence of social networks, a renewed belief in the importance of community, pressing environmental concerns, and cost consciousness are moving us away from the old top-heavy, centralized, and controlled forms of consumerism toward one of sharing, aggregation, openness, and cooperation.

The motivation for hosts using Airbnb is typically a blend of making extra money and meeting new people.

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