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This is the first full length episode of Utopias, Dystopias and Today's Technology. Our guest is Somil Gupta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/somilguptaai/ The topic is, as the title suggests, about the terms "Sharing Economy", "Peer to Peer Economy" and "Collaborative Economy" what they mean and what this means for us all. This episode makes a few references: The podcast, "What's the Buzz--AI in Business" by Andreas Welsch: https://intelligence-briefing.com/ Yanis-Varoufakis's claim that capitalism has been replaced by techno-feudalism, of which this writing is one example: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/techno-feudalism-replacing-market-capitalism-by-yanis-varoufakis-2021-06 The book, The Entrepreneurial State, by Mariana Mazzucato:
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This is the first full length episode of Utopias, Dystopias and Today's Technology. Our guest is Somil Gupta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/somilguptaai/ The topic is, as the title suggests, about the terms "Sharing Economy", "Peer to Peer Economy" and "Collaborative Economy" what they mean and what this means for us all. This episode makes a few references: The podcast, "What's the Buzz--AI in Business" by Andreas Welsch: https://intelligence-briefing.com/ Yanis-Varoufakis's claim that capitalism has been replaced by techno-feudalism, of which this writing is one example: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/techno-feudalism-replacing-market-capitalism-by-yanis-varoufakis-2021-06 The book, The Entrepreneurial State, by Mariana Mazzucato:
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| This is the first full length episode of Utopias, Dystopias and Today's Technology. Our guest is Somil Gupta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/somilguptaai/ The topic is, as the title suggests, about the terms "Sharing Economy", "Peer to Peer Economy" and "Collaborative Economy" what they mean and what this means for us all. This episode makes a few references: The podcast, "What's the Buzz--AI in Business" by Andreas Welsch: https://intelligence-briefing.com/ Yanis-Varoufakis's claim that capitalism has been replaced by techno-feudalism, of which this writing is one example: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/techno-feudalism-replacing-market-capitalism-by-yanis-varoufakis-2021-06 The book, The Entrepreneurial State, by Mariana Mazzucato: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State Chapters: 0:00 Theme Song (written, performed, recorded and mixed by Neal Rosenfeld, sang by Jennifer Youngs) 00:35 Welcoming Message 0:57 Introducing Somil Gupta 1:52 What is the peer to peer economy, what is the sharing economy and what is the collaborative economy? 2:46 Historical Framing 5:56 The Peer to Peer Economy 6:45 The Sharing Economy 8:24 The Collaborative Economy 10:13 Incentives for the Collaborative Economy: Democratization 11:36 Solving The World's Problems 12:07 Building Socially Impactful, but Low Profit Solutions 13:38 Using the Tools built by Techno-Feudalists to solve problems in the peer to peer economy: a problem with that? 16:02 Economies of Scale 18:27 The Peer to Peer Business Model: low Volume, high Diversity 19:03 Is the Peer to Peer Economy the Solution to the Problems that arise from Scale 22:28 What comes around, goes around? 25:52 The Urge to do something good 27:17 Decentral and Central Organization 33:30 The Leverage of working with the Big Players (Techno-Feudalists) 34:36 The Shared, Peer to Peer and Collaborative Economies: three legs of a Chair 35:45 Do we have to play with the big Players? 37:03 Efficiency 37:53 Pragmatism over Purity 38:28 Natural Monopolies: Amazon and Google as new States 39:41 Are these new quasi States democratic? 40:59 What is the relevant Community for Techno Democracy? 42:46 The new Roads: Public Private Partnerships 46:11 Use the Tools that are available to us now: We are the ones we've been waiting for! 50:41 The tremendous Ecosystem to solve today's Problems 52:08 Ethics beyond do no harm: let's build a better World together! 53:52 Some words about the Show 55:54 What comes next on the Show |