The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (54 page)

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30. Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers,
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31. Bruce Upbin, “Airbnb Could Have More Rooms than Hilton by 2012,”
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47. Ibid.

48. Ibid.

49. Ibid.

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51. Ibid.

52. Ibid.

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56. Ibid.

57. Bruce Upton, “PatientsLikeMe is Building a Self-Learning Healthcare System,”
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59. Ibid.

60. Frydman, “Patient-Driven Research.”

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63. Ibid.

64. Ibid.

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66. Tim Carmody, “Google and CDC Show US Flu Epidemic among Worst in a Decade,”
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67. Brooke Jarvis, “Twitter Becomes a Tool for Tracking Flu Epidemics and Other Public Health Issues,”
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68. Claire Barrett, “One Day It Will be Possible to 3-D-Print Human Heart,”
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69. Scott Smith, “Coming Soon to a 3-D Printer near You: Human Tissue and Organs,”
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70. Stuart Gray, “3-D Printing Creates Synthetic ‘Tissue,’” ABC Science, April 5, 2013, http://www
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71. Laura Ungar, “Researchers Closing in on Printing 3-D Hearts,”
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72. Mikayla Callen, “Scientists Advance 3-D Printing toward Fabrication of Living Tissues and Functional Organs,”
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74. “Magna Global Advertising Forecast 2013,”
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75. Katherine A. MacKinnon, “User Generated Content vs. Advertising: Do Consumers Trust the Word of Others over Advertisers?”
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3 (Spring 2012): 14.

76. Myles Anderson, “Study: 72% of Consumers Trust Online Reviews as Much as Personal Recommendations,”
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77. Kate Brown, “Review Websites: Is It a Genuine Review or Advertising in Disguise?,”
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79. Anderson, “Study: 72% of Consumers Trust Online Reviews.”

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81. MacKinnon, “User Generated Content vs. Advertising,” 18.

82. Michael Learmonth, “As Fake Reviews Rise, Yelp, Others Crack Down on Fraudsters,”
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sheet.

84. Jeff Jarvis, “When Innovation Yields Efficiency,”
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87. Eric Clemons, “Why Advertising Is Failing on the Internet,”
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88. Ibid.

89. “The End of the Free Lunch—Again,”
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90. “Magna Global Advertising Forecast 2013”; “IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report—2012 Full Year Results,” PricewaterhouseCoopers, April 2013, http://www.iab.net/media/file/IAB
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91. Ki Mae Heussner, “Internet Advertising Still a Growth Business, but Pace Slows,”
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-pace-slows/.

92. Claire Cain Miller, “Google Grapples with Mobile,”
International New York Times,
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93. Ibid.

94. “National Study Quantifies the ‘Sharing Economy’ Movement,”
PRNewswire,
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my-movement-138949069.html (accessed March 19, 2013).

95. Neal Gorenflo, “The New Sharing Economy,”
Shareable,
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96. Bryan Walsh, “10 Ideas that Will Change the World: Today’s Smart Choice: Don’t Own. Share,”
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59521_2059717,00.html (accessed March 19, 2013).

97. Danielle Sacks, “The Sharing Economy,”
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98. Bob Van Voris, “Apple Battles E-Books Pricing Claims in Antitrust Trial,”
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99. Geert De Clercq, “Renewables Turn Utilities into Dinosaurs of the Energy World,” Reuters, March 8, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/08/us-utilities-threat-idUSBRE92709
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Chapter 14

1. Matthew Ericson, Elaine He, and Amy Schoenfeld, “Tracking the $700 Billion Bailout,”
New York Times,
June 19, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/200904
_CREDITCRISIS/recipients.html (accessed March 29, 2013).

2. “Peer-to-Peer Lending: How Zopa Works,” Zopa, http://uk.zopa.com/about-zopa/peer-to-peer
-lending (accessed June 11, 2013).

3. David Bornstein, “Crowdfunding Clean Energy,”
New York Times,
March 6, 2013, http://
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/crowd-funding-clean-energy/ (accessed March 6, 2013).

4. “Amazon Payment Fees,” Amazon, http://www.kickstarter.com/help/amazon (accessed June 11, 2013); “What Is Kickstarter?” Kickstarter, http://www.kickstarter.com/hello?ref=nav (accessed June 11, 2013).

5. “What Is Kickstarter?”

6. “Re-imagining US Solar Financing,” Bloomberg New Energy Finance (June 4, 2012) from David Bornstein, “Crowdfunding Clean Energy,”
New York Times
Opinion Pages, March 6, 2013, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/crowd-funding-clean-energy/?_r=0 (accessed November 8, 2013).

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid.

9. Geert De Clercq, “Analysis: Renewables Turn Utilities into Dinosaurs of the Energy World,” Reuters, March 8, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/08/us-utilities-threat-idUS
BRE92709E20130308 (accessed March 8, 2013).

10. Deborah L. Jacobs, “The Trouble with Crowdfunding,”
Forbes,
April 17, 2013, http://www
.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2013/04/17/the-trouble-with-crowdfunding/ (accessed April 18, 2013).

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