Tag: future

Where Are All the Rentailers?

By Adam Walker

10.09.12, 6:48am Comments (5)

The prevailing logic is that alternatives to consumption require a non-retail business model. But what if the consumption mode is viewed as an option instead? One choice among many that a consumer makes on their buying decision journey. Read more »

Free Event: Share or Die Lunchtime Discussion!

By Milicent Johnson

08.04.12, 12:33pm Comments (0)

On August 15th Shareable and the Institute for the Future invite you to a provocative lunch-time talk in Palo Alto, California about Gen Y facilitated by Neal Gorenflo and Milicent Johnson. Read more »

The Future Proof Enterprise

By Simone Cicero

07.09.12, 10:53am Comments (5)

These days, we can’t pretend not to see how the mechanisms by which we produce and consume our wealth are, finally, showing some growing signs of change. Read more »

How Big Retail Could Mainstream Collaborative Consumption Overnight

By Neal Gorenflo

06.06.12, 11:49am Comments (11)

While no fan of big retailers, there's a way they can take sharing mainstream in a hurry. After all, retail is two-thirds of the US economy. Read more »

MIT's Robot-Fabricating 3D Printer [VIDEO]

By Paul M. Davis

04.06.12, 4:11pm Comments (0)

You don't get much more Future Now than this: a 3-D printer that prototypes and fabricates specialized robots within hours. Read more »

The Future of Peer Production [Event]

By Neal Gorenflo

09.25.11, 7:48pm Comments (0)

Shareable is honored to be collaborating with the Institute for the Future to host Michel Bauwens of the Peer to Peer Foundation for an evening of discussion and networking:
Institute for the Future (IFTF) and Shareable Magazine invite you to . Read more »

The Evolution Will Be Socialized

By Douglas Rushkoff

02.07.11, 1:44pm Comments (17)

From the actions of the Egyptian government to the policies of Facebook, the monopolies of central banks to the corporatization of the Internet, we are witnessing the potential of a peer-to-peer networking become overshadowed by the hierarchies of th. Read more »

Peep Wireless Proposes a Peer-To-Peer Cell Network

By Paul M. Davis

01.07.11, 5:53pm Comments (2)

With a handful of cell phone companies operating as a monopoly of the few, and the future of net neutrality on cell networks becoming increasingly uncertain, mobile networks have become one of the web’s most centralized and embattled access poi. Read more »

The Next Net

By Douglas Rushkoff

01.03.11, 10:36am Comments (156)

The moment the "net neutrality" debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. Read more »

Facing Hard Facts & Creating Positive Futures

By Aslan Noghre-kar

12.20.10, 10:12am Comments (0)

On Monday November 8, SAP Labs Palo Alto hosted Future Salon with Catherine Austin Fitts, Founder and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC, and former Assistant Secretary of Housing for the Federal Housing Commissioner during t. Read more »