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This Friday Video from an independently organized TEDx event features KeyWifi founder Adam Black connecting the idea of sharing online and the rise of collaborative consumption. In a world of Internet monopolies like Facebook and Google (Adam calls them apex predators), collaborative consumption models present an alternative based on interdependence. And the biological comparisons don't stop there: it's the fungus versus whale model. Find out what he means in the video below.

 

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Malcolm is a writer based in the Bay Area and the Life/Art channel editor at Shareable. His work has been featured on Alternet, KQED.org, The Los Angeles Free Press, and