Open AccessLimits to the sharing economy
Author(s) -
Daniel Pargman,
Elina Eriksson,
Adrian Friday
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
kth publication database diva (kth royal institute of technology)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.1145/2926676.2926683
Subject(s) - sharing economy , scarcity , sustainability , intersection (aeronautics) , point (geometry) , computer science , focus (optics) , business , economics , market economy , engineering , optics , physics , geometry , aerospace engineering , mathematics , ecology , world wide web , biology
There has been much interest in the Sharing Economy in recent years, accompanied with the hope that it will change and specifically make better use of existing resources. It in- tuitively makes sense, from a sustainability point of view, that the sharing of resources is good. It could even be said that the Sharing Economy ought to align well with Comput- ing within Limits and its underlying premises. In this paper however, we take a critical stance and will elaborate on the intersection between the Sharing Economy and Limits (in- cluding pinpointing potential conflicts) so as to identify and discuss a ‘Limits-compliant Sharing Economy’. We argue that even though there are limits to the Sharing Economy today, it still has potential benefits for a future of scarcity— but only if the practice of sharing is approached with a dual focus on sharing and on limits at the same time. Finally we conclude that even though we have begun to explore the fu- ture of sharing, there is still a need to further develop ideas of how the underlying infrastructure for this movement will look.
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