Is our future made of 'peer-to-peer' services?

In a previous note I was wondering which other activities might be subject to 'desintermediation', through the emergence of 'peer-to-peer' platforms. I mentioned banking, music production, even Health Care as being prone to this trend, but I wasn't looking far enough... this short vision published by fastcompany.com reveals plenty more possibilities. I doubt whether this vision would make my life easier, but it would certainly make it more sustainable and less expensive...

From FastCompany

This could be your life: You wake up and whip up omelets with tomatoes fresh from your SharedEarth.com garden before dressing your toddler in Gap cargo pants you scored on ThredUp. Your Zimride whisks you to the office, where you race to your Freecycle laptop to book your anniversary getaway -- a cozy Parisian flat -- on AirBnB. To zip around to the afternoon meetings you arranged at LiquidSpaces, you unlock your VW RelayRide in the parking lot. When you realize you forgot to buy those new nightstands, you hire a runner on TaskRabbit to swing by Ikea, pick them up, and assemble them with a drill borrowed from NeighborGoods. After this exhausting day, you arrive home to a hot filet mignon dinner for two from Gobble and two copies of Fodor's Paris from BookCrossing resting on your new nightstands. Does that sound good? If so, these sites can make the dream reality.

SHAREDEARTH.COM
A free net linking landowners with gardeners and farmers.
THREDUP.COM
A marketplace for used kids clothes and toys, swapped out by the box; not sentimental, but certainly practical!
ZIMRIDE.COM
Ride sharing for coworkers and students.
FREECYCLE.ORG
If you've got stuff that you're ready to part with for free, this site will direct you to new owners -- not the landfill.
AIRBNB.COM
Arguably the hottest sharing net, this is the place to rent other people's floors, rooms, homes, yachts -- even igloos.
LIQUIDSPACE.COM
A mobile app for finding available work spaces, anywhere from a corporate campus to a spare conference room.
RELAYRIDES.COM
Insured car-sharing with neighbors.
TASKRABBIT.COM
Matches people who need tasks done with runners -- aka "rabbits" -- willing to do them, for a price.
NEIGHBORGOODS.NET
It's the backyard fence, online. Here, neighbors can share home appliances, sports equipment, tools, and more.
GOBBLE.COM
Meals prepared and delivered by neighborhood chefs.

BOOKCROSSING.COM
Readers trade books with other readers and track them as they travel the globe.

READ MORE ABOUT THE SHARING ECONOMY AT FASTCOMPANY.COM/THESHARINGECONOMY

A version of this article appears in the May 2011 issue of Fast Company.