Uberizing Uber — The rise of #blockchain
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Uberizing Uber — The Rise of BlockchainAn interesting coincidence happened in 2009 surrounding the expansion of the collaborative economy triggered by Uber and the development of distributed ledger technologies aka blockchainCredit: paybase.ioThe Zero Marginal Cost SocietyIn 2014, few months after its release, I read Jeremy Rifkin’s Zero Marginal Cost Society which appeared to me as one of the most far-sighted book I have ever read. In this 400+ pages work, Rifkin highlights the rise of the sharing economy, predicts the development of the Collaborative Commons and the demise of capitalism as we know it. Rifkin forecasts these shifts based on new technologies enabling individuals to work together in a more direct and efficient way. The conclusions drawn were a bit astonishing especially (...)
#collaborative-economy #uberisation #sharing-economy #distributed-ledgers