This is just a followup on some of our class discussion last week regarding the ever-diminishing reliance of our economy on actual manufacturing. With our current reality ushering us all (rather forcefully) into an almost purely digital age both socially and economically, this article does make a good point of how our movement away from a focus on tangible resources and a movement toward a higher valuation of ideas is encouraging a new era of collaboration across borders – social, economic, national, you name it – higher levels of cooperation amongst people and corporations is necessary in order to be successful within this newly developing worldwide reality.
Here’s the infographic I had mentioned:
There’s a term for this. It’s called the “sharing economy.” Bill Maher did a piece on this a few weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ygeC-oeIO4