Push for a pizza, swipe for a cleaner and tap for a taxi. The rise of apps like Uber is facilitating the culture of ‘I want it, and I want it now’. For digital-savvy city-dwellers from London to Beijing, everything you need – from your dinner to a ride home – is just an app away.

With 425 sq ft apartments becoming the norm in North America, space is an issue. But as more people want to eat well, there's nowhere to put the juicer and sous-vide machine. The Kitchen Library in Toronto lets people rent kitchen equipment for a small fee, saving space and money.

From food and fitness products to books and booze, subscription boxes are disrupting the traditional way in which many consumers experience goods. With Sephora set to jump on the subscription box bandwagon, subscription-commerce competition in the beauty arena is set to hot up.

While on-demand service may have come to food, transportation and even your laundry, it’s yet to be widely available for healthcare services. Pager is hoping to change this, improving the rate at which patients get to see doctors by arranging house calls through its app.