Rachel Botsman, co-author with Roo Rogers of the upcoming book “What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption”, was one of the speakers atTEDx Sydney, the conference which featured a selection of Australia’s leading visionaries and storytellers on May 22nd.
The book Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping redefined through technology and peer communities.
From enormous marketplaces such as eBay and Craigslist, to emerging sectors such as social lending (Zopa) and car sharing (Zipcar), Collaborative Consumption is disrupting outdated modes of business and reinventing not just what we consume but how we consume. New marketplaces such as Swaptree, Zilok, Bartercard, AirBnb, and thredUP are enabling “peer-to-peer” to become the default way people exchange—whether it’s unused space, goods, skills, money, or services — and sites like these are appearing everyday, all over the world.
In her talk she presents a strong case for 21st Century sharing.
Great video – thanks.
Collaborative Consumption is a concept that has potential to transform the world.
As the hyper copyright enforcers try to squash “piracy” on the net, we return to sharing and swapping real goods – including their stupid plastic disks that happen to contain some information we already enjoyed and which our friends would like as well.
Are they going to say we can’t give a friend a book or a DVD?