Is it true that we would never be able to do away with such middle-men like uber, airbnb, google search and instead use some sort of non profit alternate of these?
"'Bout 50% of the human race is middlemen, and they don't take kindly to being eliminated. This quadrant, we play nice. Got enemies enough as it is." - Malcolm Reynolds
I imagine it is only a matter of time before we have alternatives to things such as Uber or Airbnb which arr driven by open source and cooperatively owned infrastructure.
It’ll be so frustrating to watch the current leaders in these industries, the companies who are actively fighting for ways to get around regulation, as they suddenly begin to fight for regulation to keep cooperative or community owned infrastructures out of the competition pool.
I have been saying stuff like this for a few years.
I think it is obvious that P2P distributed platforms will be leveraged to replace the monopoly company platforms. Things like cryptocurrency payments, Ethereum smart contracts, IPFS, Swarm framework, dat, WebRTC, etc.
