The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a se[...]

Envisions the dawn of a new economy powered by hydrogen that can fundamentally change the nature of our market, political and social institutions, just as coal and steam power did at the beginning of the industrial age. This book observes that we are fast approaching a critical watershed for the fos[...]

The capitalist era is passing. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin explains that intense competition is forcing the introduction of ever newer technologies, in turn boosting productivity to the p[...]

The industrial revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame: the prices of energy and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt are soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of[...]

Visionary activist and author Jeremy Rifkin exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering "the clearest summation yet of how the Internet is really changing our lives" (The Seattle Times).Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside your immediate fa[...]

"One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day" ("Utne Reader") delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto.
Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of[...]

Boken beskriver det som författaren kallar "den tredje industriella revolutionen", en brytningstid för industrisamhället i den form vi vant oss vid under 1900-talet - ett samhälle med massproduktion och massarbete - till den nya ekonomin där företagen, trots ökade vinster, deklarerar att de b[...]