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Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcommunism

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Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcommunism

Peer-to-peer platforms have changed the game. Make them cheap or free, and it would be way of reinventing the economy to deliver participation and choice alongside social justice

»Economists came to describe this benefit of collaboration as a “positive externality”. And the clue is in the name. It’s good, but it comes from somewhere outside the strict market relationship between two parties in a contract. The next problem is how to quantify the benefit – and decide who should own it.«

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Jul 15, 2015
Welcome to the world of the platform

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Welcome to the world of the platform

Powerful tech firms are altering not just the way we buy things, but could sweep away an entire economic model

»… instead of adhering to a precise and rigorous code that spells out the rights of customers and the obligations of service providers – the cornerstone of the modern regulatory state – platform operators rely on the widely distributed knowledge of participants in a service, hoping that the market will eventually punish those who misbehave.«

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Jun 08, 2015
Smart City vs. Collective Intelligence in Barcelona

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Smart City vs. Collective Intelligence in Barcelona

(Barcelona en Comú party celebrates) Barcelona en Comú party celebrates in Barcelona during a press conference following the results in Spain's municipal and regional elections on May 24.

»Launched in June of last year, Barcelona en Comú is made up of activists, social movements and progressive political parties who share the goal of “winning back” Barcelona from the political and economic elites holding it hostage and democratizing the city’s public institutions.Two, very different urban visions went head-to-head in the elections: the professionalized, Smart City of incumbent mayor Xavier Trias, and the city governed by the ‘collective intelligence’ of its citizens, advocated by Ada Colau.«

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Jun 02, 2015

The Next Internet Is TV

In this future, what publications will have done individually is adapt to survive; what they will have helped do together is take the grand weird promises of writing and reporting and film and art on the internet and consolidated them into a set of business interests that most closely resemble the TV industry.
May 04, 2015

Release: Emergent Value - A Report on the Internet of People

Vores årsrapport er endelig kommet fra trykken. Det er et magasin, der griber om de tendenser og trends vi har undersøgt i 2014, kondenseret ned til de vigtigste pointer.

Vi har været så heldige at få den dygtige designer Stinne Marie Wilhelmsen til at sætte det hele op for os, så det er en fryd for øjet.

Vi håber du kommer forbi til et glas bobler eller en øl og måske en snak om, hvad du eller din virksomhed er med til at skabe af emergent værdi.

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Apr 28, 2015

Emergent Value #0 — A Report on the Internet of People

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This report is primarily about positive externalities, i.e. the value created outside traditional organizational boundaries. The core underlying argument is that supporting communities, empowering users and contributing to the commons is essential for value creation within the organizations themselves.

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Apr 28, 2015

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