There are 23 megacities (or city states) in the world now. By 2025, it’s predicted that there will be 37.
Tokyo alone is forecasted to have over 37.2 million residents by 2025, more than live in Canada. According to the United Nations, over half the world now lives in cities – but by 2050, over 70% of the world will be urban dwellers.
In the second installment of our “8 Trends That Will Shape Humanity” series, we look at the rise of the “city state” and how the coming consolidation of humanity into cities will change life for residents of these massive urban hubs.
What is life like in the city state of the future?
One aspect of city state living is that homes will get smaller. With space at a premium, apartments and houses will shrink and become flexible, multi-purpose dwellings. Graham Hill’s Life Edited apartment is a present day model of this concept. This downsizing of personal space means that people will have to carefully consider what physical objects they keep in their homes. This is where the sharing economy comes in.
Share Everything
What is the sharing economy? It’s a growing movement that enables the sharing of personal resources amongst members. Recently estimated to be worth $3.5 billion by Forbes magazine, the sharing economy was heralded by innovators like Zipcar (a car sharing service) and Airbnb (a house and apartment sharing service). While there are numerous free sharing services, generally the sharing transaction is monetized and handled by a third party company. These sharing services have allowed members to make money by renting out things and space that would have otherwise sat unused. And people are truly sharing almost everything.
The sharing economy now includes:
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- Estonia vetoes EU VAT proposals for sharing economy serviceson May 17, 2024 at 4:54 am
Estonia / EU: Estonia has vetoed plans to introduce value-added tax [VAT] on sharing economy services such as Airbnb and Bolt in the European Union at a meeting with finance ministers in Brussels.
- SEII Sharing Economy International Inc.on May 12, 2024 at 10:00 am
Sharing Economy International Inc. focuses on the development of sharing economy platforms and related rental businesses. The company operates rental stations that offer power banks for mobile ...
- How sharing economy M&A performed in the technology industry in Q1 2024on May 7, 2024 at 6:37 pm
Analysis of the key themes driving M&A activity reveals that sharing economy accounted for 2 technology deals announced in Q1 2024, worth a total value of $160m. The $160m acquisition of Gett by Pango ...
- New book from BC sociologist looks at the 'gig' economyon May 2, 2024 at 5:00 pm
So was born the sharing economy—popularly referred to as the “gig” economy. But this contemporary idea of work that would provide inexpensive, valued services for consumers and good wages, flexibility ...
- Artículos sobre Sharing economyon August 1, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Far from a touchy-feely community, research shows online platforms such as Airbnb tend to strengthen users’ narcissism and class biases.
- Premium cars in the sharing economyon August 1, 2022 at 10:54 pm
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a sudden global economic downturn in 2020 and markets relying on people’s mobility were suffering severely. Indeed, car rental and sharing companies saw their ...
- Reengineering the Sharing Economyon July 30, 2022 at 12:49 pm
The current sharing economy suffers from system-wide deficiencies even as it produces distinctive benefits and advantages for some participants. The first generation of sharing markets has left us to ...
- Sharing economyon June 7, 2022 at 1:00 am
borrowed or rented, often through online transactions, in an effort to save money, reduce costs and cut waste. Prime business examples of the sharing economy include Airbnb, Zipcar and the Uber Pool ...
- Sharing risk for a sharing economyon February 8, 2022 at 11:58 pm
It’s opened the door for scores of new billion-dollar businesses that have started to reshape the economy around these radically different ideas. Expected to grow by 1000% over the next 10 years, the ...
- The Sharing Economy Is Changing The Rules Of Businesson February 5, 2019 at 7:46 am
This sharing economy is rapidly becoming the new business of sharing, with major winners already including Airbnb (rooms), Uber (rides), and Chegg (books). If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, or an ...
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- Uber unveils shuttle service for airports, sporting events and concert venueson May 17, 2024 at 6:48 pm
Uber revealed a series of new features, including the shuttle service, during the company's annual Go-Get showcase in New York City.
- Religious health care sharing group challenges Colorado insurance data sharing requirementon May 17, 2024 at 6:27 pm
Health Care Sharing Plan Reporting Requirements Act requires cost sharing ministries to disclose members and financial statistics.
- Religious health care sharing group challenges Colorado Division of Insurance’s datasharing requirementon May 17, 2024 at 5:38 pm
Health Care Sharing Plan Reporting Requirements Act requires cost sharing ministries to disclose members and financial stats.
- Share Openly: A simple icon for a new social sharing serviceon May 17, 2024 at 9:56 am
A lovely blog post by Jon Hicks on his process for creating the ShareOpenly icon. Characteristically, lots of care and attention went into this. I'm really glad you get to see the open hand icons, ...
- Estonia vetoes EU VAT proposals for sharing economy serviceson May 17, 2024 at 4:54 am
Estonia / EU: Estonia has vetoed plans to introduce value-added tax [VAT] on sharing economy services such as Airbnb and Bolt in the European Union at a meeting with finance ministers in Brussels.
- eClerx Services stock in focus as IT firm announces share buyback, dividend & Q4 resultson May 16, 2024 at 8:35 pm
The IT firm said its board has approved the proposal of buy back of not exceeding 13,75,000 fully paid-up equity shares of face value Rs 10 each for an amount not exceeding Rs 385 crore.
- Pennsylvania needs more mergers, sharing services in local governmenton May 16, 2024 at 5:35 am
The Washington County municipalities of McDonald and Midway, along with Robinson and Mount Pleasant townships, are considering regionalizing their police departments into one unit rather than four ...
- American Shared Hospital Services AMSon May 14, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Morningstar Quantitative Ratings for Stocks are generated using an algorithm that compares companies that are not under analyst coverage to peer companies that do receive analyst-driven ratings ...
- SHRG Sharing Services Global Corporationon May 13, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Sharing Services Global Corporation operates in the direct selling industry primarily in the United States, Canada, and the Republic of Korea, and internationally. It operates through Health and ...
- The best photo storage and sharing sites in 2024on May 13, 2024 at 6:59 am
They're also great for sharing photos with family and friends, and many have full-featured editing tools built in. Some have free tiers of service, while others are geared more towards professionals.
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