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What I am proposing is an extra layer of p2p distribution. Why can’t you for example volunteer to store a bunch of products in your garage which people can come and pick up 24 hours a day. For that you get paid, or you can limit the “opening hours” to any amount of time any time you want.

What then happens, if when people buy stuff online, they instantly can go and pick it up 24 hours a day at p2p storage facilities. For a 2AM pickup, it’d obviously cost extra for the nightly service.

Everything would be secure, you don’t get name adress information of people that can provide you the goods until you paid for it, and there is no information if that person has more or less than 1 item in stock. Not even the need to disturb that person ringing on his door bell, the Android application would ring as soon as the customer is approaching the door, thus to be a p2p storage and delivery person, you don’t need to stop everything else that you do at home to be part of that, just store a bunch of things close to your door.

No transaction of money is done ever, the money is spent online, the commission is paid online. What people would do is eventually be able to rate the p2p kiosk experience as well as the buyer. Like ebay ratings but much more relevant and real.

Now add to that a layer of actual transportation of goods. The higher quality goods need to be transported in the absolute most efficient way, to both save on costs and save on pollution. There would be large storage facilities for goods where trains, trucks, airplanes drop the goods, from there the goods are spread out to the thousands of “p2p kiosks” at totally regular people’s homes or any participating consumer storage facility.

P2p delivery can also happen by any person volunteering to pickup goods and deliver them at specific places, could be on your bicycle, in your car, using your little transport truck. Basically you just tell your in-car Android GPS device where you are going, and it will tell you if you can make a few bucks by picking something up and dropping it off on your way.

Same thing as p2p taxi where if you want to carry other people on your backseat, simply tell the Android system, and you are transformed into a p2p taxi. Which will greatly save on pollution as well, since most cars are only driven by 1 person. Putting more people on the backseats of cars is a very easy way to save 50% car pollution and improve traffic conditions greatly. And it would cost about the same as taking public transportation, thus much cheaper than real taxis.

Now Google could organize all this if you want. Or some other huge private corporation. I think though it makes much more sense that the state is regulating all this, in terms of making sure there is interoperability across the whole infrastructure, especially when you start involving normal citizen in the making of this new type of optimized p2p infrastructure. You want safety, quality, trust systems, compatibility. If you leave this new type of organisation of the infrastructure only up to private corporations, there may be collusion of interests, monopolies, illegal trade, all sorts of other things that corrupts the system.