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"Around the world, it's becoming easier than ever to sell your human capital - the sum total of your knowledge, experiences and talents - to the highest bidder. Using new P2P marketplaces like Sidetour and Gidsy, you can sell a lifetime's worth of experiences and memories the same way you might sell a pair of used shoes. Using educational marketplaces like Skillshare, you can sell your esoteric knowledge to people with an interest in a specific topic. And by taking advantage of sites like TaskRabbit, it's easier than ever to earn quick bucks for completing mundane tasks for people who live near you. In major cities from New York to San Francisco to Berlin, the pop-up human capital store is fast becoming a reality. Douglas Rushkoff even suggests that this "more freelance, direct P2P means of exchange is going to replace what we thought of as employment.""

It's going to be a whaacy world out there!

more about reputation...seems like a recurring theme...

it's right after attention and trust on the list of dimensions of Value - incidentally these metacurrency project guys are looking at dimVals as being each represented by a currency, and then providing a currency exchange (which is transformation of value) a little different from the econ models i've been talking about but not much