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Editor-in-chief:
Maria Palazzolo

Publisher: Telos A&S srl
Via del Plebiscito, 107
00186 Rome

Reg.: Court of Rome 295/2009 of 18 September 2009

Diffusion: Internet
Protocols - Isp: Eurologon srl

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PRIMO PIANO SCALAc

Telos Primo Piano Scala c

the collection TWO, our way to
celebrate the tenth anniversary
of our monthly publication
Primo Piano Scala c.

the collection ONE, our way
to celebrate the first five years
of our monthly publication
“Primo Piano Scala c”.

April 2017, Year IX, n. 4

Tom Slee

Sharing Economy. The other side of the coin

Telos: You are one of the first critics of so-called “Sharing Economy”. What triggered your interest in this topic?

Tom Slee: I have a longstanding distrust of people who claim to be building decentralized, community-oriented person-to-person networks that just happen to involve creating global enterprises that turn their founders into billionaires. We’ve seen this happen with earlier cycles of Internet innovation especially around the idea of openness: Google claims to be about openness except for the advertising and search algorithms that make it money, Facebook is all about openness on the part of its users, but not about its newsfeed algorithm, and so on. ...more

Editorial

How would you translate sharing economy? In Italian economia delle condivisione would seem the most accurate. And yet it doesn’t do justice to this economic phenomenon. Sharing is currently one of the most rhetorically abused words. Reuse, recycle, borrowing: many extremely recent entrepreneurial start-ups are based on this concept. They always start with a technological platform where citizens can offer services or share an asset. ...more

the collection TWO, our way to
celebrate the tenth anniversary
of our monthly publication
Primo Piano Scala c.

the collection ONE, our way
to celebrate the first five years
of our monthly publication
“Primo Piano Scala c”.