Self-Driving People, Enabled by Airbnb
But while Uber aspires to self-driving cars, Airbnb has a different goal: enabling what I call self-driving people.
.. To see what’s growing, go to Airbnb’s site and click not on “homes” but on “experiences.”
.. Tourists visiting a foreign country try to understand the culture by going to a museum and viewing “art by dead people,” noted Chesky. “Why not learn how to make art yourself, taught by a living artist in that culture and immerse yourself in the artist’s world? These are experiences you can bring back with you!”
Chesky believes that the potential for Airbnb experiences could be bigger than home-sharing. I agree.
.. Indeed, the beauty of this era is that you don’t need to wait for Ford to come to your town with a 25,000-person auto factory. Anyway, that factory is now 2,500 robots and 1,000 people. The future belongs to communities that learn to leverage their unique attributes, artisans and human talent.