Platforms of sharing economy - transformative digital infrastructures?
Technologies like 3D printers turn the present-day economy upside down. The classic role of companies in material production is put into perspective as well as the customers, that step out of their passive role as soon as they produce their own products at their home printer. Decentralized mini-factories have the potential to offer realistic alternatives to conventional mass production and consumption. Is a new paradigma of 'social fabrication' imminent?