Economic Tremors and Earthquakes: Sharing, the Sharing Economy, Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrencies and DAOs

Abstract

We live in a digital world where technological innovations have dramatically changed our lives. Each day, new potentially disruptive offerings and ideas appear. On a tectonic scale, some of these innovations are minor tremors that will quickly subside and be forgotten, while others are major earthquakes that will reshape our economic landscape completely. Wi-Fi and smartphones are among the examples of huge seismic changes in the recent past. Together with the Internet, search engines and interactive Web 2.0, they have changed the ways we buy, search, communicate, date, entertain ourselves, do business and much more. In ...