In urban areas, renting can be more practical than owning. General Motors are giving six million drivers the chance to rent out their cars to others, showing how brands can capitalise on a consumer shift from ownership to access.

The desire to own and drive your own car used to be a life-defining characteristic for young Brits – but its importance is fading. And it’s the same case in other countries too, from the US and Germany to Japan and Australia. But why? And how is the car industry responding?

ParkatmyHouse connects the owners of unused parking spaces with the drivers who desperately need them, proving the power of peer-to-peer consumption and its potential to challenge the annoyances that were previously just taken for granted.

As Millennials increasingly perceive ownership as a burden, car-sharing companies like DriveNow are changing the game. From Dusseldorf to Munich, they’re catering to an ever-growing percentage of young Germans for whom owning a car is no longer a viable or ‘cool’ thing to do.

'Unhotel' service onefinestay allows well-heeled travellers to live like locals in luxurious surroundings. A concierge service and careful property curation provide value at a time when comparison sites are seeing hotels lose their spark.

Sidestepping conventional cornerstones of adulthood like a stable job or homeownership, 20-somethings are eager to explore who they want to be and evade responsibility for a while. But how do you figure out a generation that can't keep still?

In response to increasingly fluid definitions of home, people are projecting their identities onto their living spaces by curating, remixing and personally improving their surroundings.

With personalised subscription-based services like Netflix and Spotify changing the way people consume film and music, is e-reader iPhone app Oyster planning on doing the same for books?