Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and author of the recent book The Sharing Economy, believes crowd-based capitalism could replace managerial capitalism in the next 10-20 years. Sundararajan believes crowd-based capitalism is an inherently superior model, one that uses resources more efficiently, which tends to result...
American cities have plenty of jobs and nowhere near enough housing. Do city officials stand a chance of keeping Millennials residents around?
Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, believes we should rethink the world using today’s technology. “Let’s stop optimizing for the short-term. Let’s start optimizing for the long-term, and think about how to make the society we want,” O’Reilly says.
At our third gathering of What's Now: San Francisco, hosted in partnership with Capgemini, Saul Griffith presented a never-before-seen map of U.S. energy flow, and extolled the virtues of monster truck rallies over Burning Man.
Mayor Nutter believes that city officials should first and foremost remain open to the possibility of disruptive companies that can provide new or better services to their constituents. While he admits there is no one-size-fits-all method to regulating and taxing the sharing economy, Mayor Nutter believes that it will continue...
At the second edition of our new series What's Now: San Francisco, WIRED Senior Maverick Kevin Kelly quizzed the crowd about artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and data tracking.
Entrepreneur and investor Nick Hanauer, one of the most vocal proponents of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, wants his fellow one percenters to understand the importance of addressing income inequality. No one has a bigger stake in a thriving middle class than the wealthy, Hanauer said.
Zipcar Co-Founder Robin Chase believes the status quo is broken, and that sharing economy platforms—which she refers to as “peers inc”—can help rebuild a new status quo. Chase devised the “peers inc” terminology because of the mutual importance of what she sees as two halves of the sharing economy equation:...
At the first gathering of What's Now: San Francisco, hosted in partnership with Capgemini, John Battelle discussed the current unease in the city of San Francisco. "Once again, San Francisco is the canary in the coal mine for a bigger story that's happening around the world," John said.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said in his first inaugural address. While this may not be strictly true, especially for a nation in the midst of the Great Depression and less than a decade away from entering World War II, the...