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

By J. Rifkin. 2014

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Subfields: Information Systems, Management of Technology and Innovation, Media Technology

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Organizing for digital servitization: A service ecosystem perspective (2019, background): “Once digital services are in place, the marginal cost of producing and upscaling service operations should ideally be close to zero (Rifkin, 2014).”
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Designing Ai for Human Values (2017, background): “According to [23], AI will be one of the enabling technologies for this scenario.”
Understanding Collaborative Consumption: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior with Value-Based Personal Norms (2017, neutral): “Among those terms are ‘‘collaborative consumption’’ (Botsman and Rogers 2011; Rifkin 2014) ‘‘sharing’’ or ‘‘sharing economy’’ (Belk 2009, 2014b), ‘‘access’’ or ‘‘access-based consumption’’ (Bardhi and Eckhardt 2012; Chen 2009), ‘‘commercial sharing systems’’ (Lamberton and Rose 2012), ‘‘the mesh’’ (”
How to Respond to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or the Second Information Technology Revolution? Dynamic New Combinations between Technology, Market, and Society through Open Innovation (2018, background): “With the rapid spread of information technology (IT), the development of a society based on the Collaborative Common is defined as the Third Industrial Revolution era or the zero marginal cost society [4,5].”
Servitization, digitization and supply chain interdependency (2017, background): “First, the marginal cost of digital services is near zero (Rifkin, 2014).”
Does the sharing economy increase inequality within the eighty percent?: findings from a qualitative study of platform providers (2017, background): “Some observers have gone so far to predict a “zero marginal cost society” (Rifkin, 2014), in which highly productive technologies combine with users to remake economic relations.”
The sharing economy: Your business model's friend or foe? (2016, background): “high school pupils, for instance, revealed a major shift in moral concepts that turned from a central interest in tangible goods toward more care for others (Rifkin, 2014).”
Co-evolution of platform architecture, platform services, and platform governance: Expanding the platform value of industrial digital platforms (2021, background): “As a result, new platform services can often be developed at a marginal cost (Rifkin, 2015).”
Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Implications for the Future of Work (2019, positive): “This “zero marginal cost society” was long heralded as the new business model (Rifkin, 2014) but increasingly shows its limitations both in terms of people’s privacy concerns and in terms of its economic and social impact, as discussed previously.”
UAV-Assisted Data Collection for Internet of Things: A Survey (2022, background): “sors in the world will exceed 100 trillion [1].”
Reflections on societal and business model transformation arising from digitization and big data analytics: A research agenda (2015, background): “With processing, storage and transmission of data available on a massive scale at extremely low cost, digitization has the capacity to change almost any form of human labor (and lifestyle) that is directly or indirectly associated with data and cognitive non-routine processes (e.g., Frey and Osborne”
The consumer production journey: marketing to consumers as co-producers in the sharing economy (2018, background): “…and Uber to generate change and commercialize consumer activities in today’s markets is very clear (Sundararajan 2016), some argue there are new opportunities for collaborative consumption that are non-market based and which directly draw on voluntary exchanges between consumers (Rifkin 2014).”
Designing the Business Models for Circular Economy—Towards the Conceptual Framework (2016, background): “Increasing performance may be related also with sharing and virtualizing office space through flexible seating, desk-sharing, office hoteling, tele-working, audio and video conferences, the “internet of things”, big data and machine learning [23,28,67].”