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This was a great article. If anything, the person you take on a date will see just how creative your when it comes to taking him/her places. And, I think how creative someone is says a lot about a person

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Patrick, thanks for expanding the conversation in this direction. One of the elements of the Shareable U puzzle that I considered including in this piece was the establishment of collaborative work environments (hackerspaces, coworking for students) within the university campus itself. A few great examples of that:

- Students in the Entrepreneurship Society at Aalto University in Finland launched the Aalto Venture Garage in 2010, a coworking space featuring a “start-up sauna.” Members have raised €12.9 million in early stage funding to date;
- The Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology (BIPT) houses one of China’s first hackerspaces. BIPT receives support from Toyhouse, which is looking to get hackerspaces set up at schools and universities throughout Asia;
- iceaddis in Ethiopia is a hub for start-ups that focus on creating linkages between Addis Ababa University and private industry. One of their student members is working on a very cheap portable device that uses sound to repel mosquitos with a goal of decreasing malaria exposure.

Personally, I have no doubts about the viability and necessity of maintaining the physical campuses and the experiences that those campuses foster. As I mentioned at the beginning of the piece, higher education institutions will need to serve a vastly larger population of students in the decades ahead. Online ed is just one piece of that, but there will still be plenty of room for place-based learning of all shapes and sizes.

Some good points here but one big one that seems to have been only hinted at in the MOOCs section :- will sharing and Peer-to-Peer transform the idea of a big central _campus_ itself?

I.E. a common physical space makes sense for many things in a Uni - talks, socialising, a sense of a scholarly community, public lectures, serendipity.

But my experience as an inter-disciplinary PhD student is also of often a system that's still run as a fairly top-down, hierarchical system, with poorly designed workspaces and very often not getting to spend the right time with the right people.

Further, there are a lot of people who don't have desks who'd like one, and a lot who are allocated one who don't use them and prefer to work from home while researching for various reasons (kids, privacy etc).

Yet with the richness of the internet and social media :- what if the University, while still retaining a central campus presence :- was "set free" so smaller, more agile research groups could self-organise in more participatory environments, like Hubs and Co-Working spaces?

A big part of my research is participating in 5 or 6 different Meetup groups of interest, and these are a great example of Sharing - they only demand a meeting room once a month, and usually follow up the Meetup with high-value discussions in a public cafe nearby.

Or even be given the option to take the $$ that would otherwise be allocated to a desk, computer, and IT support on campus for 3 years, and choose to spend it on upgrading their desk and laptop at home, or a subscription to a Hub or Co-Working space?

I know this doesn't fit neatly into the 'sharing' narrative of the piece :- and we need to be careful about the idea of flexibility being turned into just 'outsourcing/cost-cutting' with little regard for student welfare.

But I think properly participatory environments for advanced research could be both smarter, more productive and at least as resource-efficient as currently.

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@Roma and @Jamie: Thanks for the leads. So many great meal sharing platforms out there! It's exciting to think of all the dining/connecting options we have or will have down the road.

@Cedric: You're welcome! Yes, there certainly are ways to share meals that are, as you mentioned, very old. What I'm pointing out is that many of the new platforms haven't expanded to include places outside of big cities. For instance, I've been unable to find a meal sharing service that exists in my hometown of Santa Cruz, Ca., just an hour south of San Francisco. But with the increasing popularity of meal sharing, hopefully I won't have to wait much longer. :)

Thanks for the heads-up about Table d'Hote.

Cheers,
Cat

Hi Rory

I'd be more than happy to arrange a skype call and discuss the figures.

And whilst WhipCar no longer exist, Carloco is new on the scene doing the same as WhipCar, but with the lessons learnt from them. Ali Clabburn founder of Liftshare is behind Carloco and I'm sure if you're interested in talking about this too I may be able to get him or if not one of the Carloco team in on the call too.

Drop me an email on jemma (at) liftshare (dot) com and we'll sort something out.

Thanks

Hey, thanks for the tip. Did checked on homedine and true its a great site. Might be checking the other site in a while but my kid is still busy play fast and furious showdown crack. The movie really got him pumped up. Now I have to wait till his done... :(

Hi Jemma,

Thanks for responding. I was really referring to on street car rental in my post, things like ZipCar and WhipCar.

I would be very interested to see the stats you refer to and maybe I can put together a piece. Perhaps we can arrange a skype call?

I haven't noticed London shops suddenly going bankrupt thanks to the similar "Boris Bikes" that have been there for years, so I don't see why NYC businesses should be any different. There's plenty of reason why shops go bust, but folk cycling isn't usually high on the list (high rents, poor service, Internet competition, utiltiy costs, taxes, etc are probably bigger worries to most store owners).

i already tried HomeDine, it was great!
http://homedine.com

Some more ideas for what you can do without even leaving the bed:
Reading out loud.
Debates
Learn a language
Calligraphy
Massage reiki etc
Partner yoga
Eye Spy
Youtube marathon
Chess, (a traditional option for courting)