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This Third Industrial Revolution shifts production to the individual level, building resilience into cities. The production of other resources, like energy and food, will follow suit. Redundancy and scalability of production will reduce the net cost of production (including negative externalities like environmental destruction) and will reduce the vulnerability of these systems to large changes.
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Reputation Community Shared Ownership Cyclical Economy Permaculture Collaborative Consumption Human Scale Internet Users
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and yard-shares are growing. Websites dedicated to DIY guidance and technologies like 3-D printing have the capacity, in the future, to devolve global supply lines. Scarcity will encourage people to consume less in general, and technology and information will enable people to build or repair many of the things they need to survive.
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The collapse of an oil-based economy will destroy the growth economy based on consumption and production as we know it. Instead, a new paradigm rises, catalyzed primarily by the exponential growth of the internet. The free flow of information through the internet has already inspired new examples of an economy of sharing. Services like bikeshares, car-shares, room-shares,