The Sharing Economy | Fast Company

The Sharing Economy | Fast Company: "The evolution of the social web, explains Botsman, first enabled programmers to share code (Linux), then allowed people to share their lives (Facebook), and most recently encouraged creators to share their content (YouTube). 'Now we're going into the fourth phase,' says Botsman, 'where people are saying, 'I can apply the same technology to share all kinds of assets offline, from the real world."