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Carmen Geiger López • 8 cards
Greg Isenberg • The Future of Commerce - Greg Isenberg
a service economy wherein consumers obtain services by leasing or renting goods rather than buying them outright.
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
As more items are invented and manufactured—while the total number of hours in a day to enjoy them remains fixed—we spend less and less time per item. In other words, the long-term trend in our modern lives is that most goods and services will be short-term use. Therefore most goods and services are candidates for rental and sharing.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?
But this era is over. Now consumers have coalesced into the powerful multitude. Their empowerment can more and more be seen as a threat for society. Just like Walmart, tech companies such as Amazon and many others prove that in the Entrepreneurial Age, a multitude hungry for quality at scale beats workers and society most of the time, inflicting a
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