Few subjects elicit more skepticism than the so-called "sharing economy." Kevin Roose argues: "The Sharing Economy Isn’t About Trust, It’s About Desperation." Catherine Rampell warns: "there’s a
Most jobs suck. Yours probably doesn't–after all, you're a member of the highly educated, cutting-edge TechCrunch demographic–but most jobs, almost by definition, are done by people coerced by the
I love the sharing economy because it's efficient. Got some spare time? Become a TaskRabbit! Spare space? AirBNB it! A car and nowhere to go? Drive for Uber or Lyft! The taxi industry is a regulatory-
Will robots and software eat all the jobs? No. Will robots and software eat <i>your</i> job? Yes, probably. Eventually. Rejoice! ...for your grandchildren. You and your kids are likely to have a prett
In honor of <a target="_blank" href="https://medium.com/message/4ddceeae25ad">May Day</a>, let's think big for a moment. No, no, no. Bigger than that.
Consider all the furious attention paid to eco
<b>The Book of Berners-Lee</b>
And lo, it did come to pass, as prophesied by the geeks of yore, that in the twenty-fifth year of the Web, the world entire, from Kathmandu to Timbuktu to Zanzibar to
The Great Bifurcation is underway. The American economy is polarizing between the minority rich and the majority poor; technology is a major cause of this; and the rest of the world will soon follow,
So where were we? Oh yes: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/18/no-sympathy-for-the-devil/">everybody</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://pando.com/2013/12/20/breaking-protesters-attack-google-bu
Once upon a time there were things called <em>jobs</em>, and they were well understood. People went to work for companies, in offices or in factories. There were exceptions -- artists, aristocrats, en
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/26/america-has-hit-peak-jobs/">Maybe</a> <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/16/this-time-is-different/">I'm</a> <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/01/
Twenty years ago <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hsieh">Tony Hsieh</a> was part of the three-man Harvard team that won the hyper-prestigious ACM Programmming Contest. Five y
Do you have a job? Do you like having a job? Then I have some bad news for you. <i>The Guardian</i> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/19/driverless-cars-pilotless-
"Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase," <a target="_blank" href="http://cdixon.org/2013/02/10/the-computing-deployment-phase/">observes<
"The middle class is being hollowed out," <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/12/10-reasons-why-2013-will-be-the-year-you-quit-your-job/">says</a> James Altucher. "Economists are shifting their at