The Third Industrial Revolution - Jeremy Rifkin
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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 second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable economic game plan to take us into the future. Here, Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful "Third Industrial Revolution." He asks us to imagine hundreds of millions of people producing their own green energy in their homes, offices, and factories, and sharing it with each other in an "energy internet," just like we now create and share information online. Rifkin describes how the five-pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution will create thousands of businesses, millions of jobs, and usher in a fundamental reordering of human relationships, from hierarchical to lateral power, ...
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2013Uitgever: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd304 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0230341977ISBN-13: 9780230341975Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2011, 304pp, paperback, goed exemplaar / good copy [Auteur: Rifkin, Jeremy] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Palgrave Macmillan] [Jaar: 2011] [Titel: The Third Industrial Revolution / How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World]
