WHAT'S NEXT?
| WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE SHARING MOVEMENT? By Neal Gorenflo As they have always done in crises, people are turning to each other to survive. What’s different today is that a new coordination mechanism — the Internet — enables individuals to create, share, and govern directly with one another using networks instead of hierarchies. With this, a new social contract is forming based on peer-to-peer relations, which the P2P Foundation has been exploring for a decade. Instead of competing with sharp elbows for rank in the hierarchy, individuals are empowered to face each other as equals and ask a simple but revolutionary question — “what can we create together?” Learn more here. |
