“What’s mine is yours”, written by Rachel Bostman and Roo Rogers introduces a new culture, a culture of the future. They call this culture "collaborative consumption”. According to the authors, it consists of three ‘systems’:
1- Redistribution Markets: used or pre-owned goods are redistributed from where they are needed to somewhere or someone where they are e.g. eBay.
2- Collaborative Lifestyles: sharing and exchange of resources and assets such as time, food, space, skills and money e.g. peer-to-peer social lending.
3- Product Service System: based on a 'usage mindset' whereby you pay to share a product so you can use it without needing to own the product outright e.g. car sharing.
This moving, “collaborative consumption” is growing and evolving due to social technologies but also considering that we are sharing more, using less and becoming more and more community minded. Environmental concerns and cost-consciousness are increasingly influencing our actions. The book aims to show the positive impacts humans can have when they work together, in order to provide better lives for each other. In this regard, it is an extraordinary one of the kind as it shows the power of people and their continual innovative uses of technology that enables them to cut out the middlemen and independently create socially and environmentally beneficial projects.
But what do you think about this book and his theory Ornela? the blog is well written and you review for the book is concise and clear, but really what do you think about the Collaborative consumption? To my opinion it is really good to have it here in albania as a theory implemented somewhere, although i am sceptical about it.
YanıtlaSilIT will be good if we use the collaborative consumption but for my opinion here in Albania is very difficult to realize it. Poeple connect everything with money and we should try to exchange intersting staff. You can share the car or home but always the poeple who will do that will be very skeptic.
YanıtlaSilThe future of transportation will be a blend of things like Zipcar, public transportation, and private car ownership. I think it’s a great opportunity for us to participate in the changing nature of car ownership.
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