The third industrial revolution. How horizontal interactions change energy, economics and peace: Jeremy Rifkin

The author of the concept of the third industrial revolution, a well -known scientist, influential American economist and ecologist Jeremy Rifkin, believes that new structures should come to replace the traditional centralized business models in the next half century. The heritage of the first and second industrial revolutions – the hierarchical organization of economic and political power – will inevitably give way to horizontal interaction, when hundreds of millions of people will generate their own green energy at home, in offices and in factories and share it with each other in the “energy Internet”. Considering the basic characteristics and principles of the functioning of such an infrastructure, Jeremy Rifkin shows what obstacles and opportunities lie on their way in different communities, countries and in the world as a whole. His vision of the Third Industrial Revolution was officially adopted by the European community and China and supported by the UN, and now attempts are being made to realize a new economic paradigm.
2nd edition.

Author
Rifkin Jeremy
Translator
Ionov Vyacheslav
Publisher
Alpina Non-Fix, 2015