Third Industrial Revolution
by Jeremy Rifkin · first published 2011
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Inside The Fake Science Factory from DefCon 26. First you'll laugh. And then you'll weep for humanity! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ras_VYgA77Q Also really dug Jeremy Rifkin's The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. Outlines the rollout of a possible new engineering platform consisting of free energy, satellite internet, and AI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3M8Ka9vUA Keep the…
on “Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?” ↗'Jeremy Rifkin, author of “The Third Industrial Revolution,” said a basic income would enable people to volunteer their time in areas like elder care, child care, culture and the environment.' This seems like the most important sentence in the article. Raising…
on “After Jobs Dry Up, What Then?” ↗…follow them. Jeremy Rifkin has written a lot of about this topic and his arguments that economists should first learn the laws of thermodynamics before being set loose on the economy. His book, "The Third Industrial Revolution" touches on this topic quite a bit, if your interested… http://www.amazon.com/Third-Industrial-Revolution-Lateral-Tr...
on “Can the Fed raise interest rates?” ↗…published his latest book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism. In 2011, Jeremy Rifkin published the New York Times bestseller The Third Industrial Revolution
on “Radical new economic system will emerge from collapse of capitalism” ↗…was scarce in pre-agrarian societies (see 'The Original Affluent Society by Marshall Sahlins). Looks like an intriguing book though, thanks for sharing. Seems similar to the thesis of Jeremy Rifkin's 'Third Industrial Revolution' and 'Zero Marginal Cost Society' books. As for your worst-case-scenario about crypto-currencies, replace them with over-valued real estate and we've already seen it play out at least once. The majorities…
on “Buffett bashes Bitcoin as nonproductive, thriving on mystique” ↗I remember reading "The Third Industrial Revolution" [0] in my childhood, which was a paean to all the different industrial processes that would be possible in space. One that I remember was alloys of metals with vastly different weights (lithium and lead,…
on “Optical fibre made in orbit should be better than the terrestrial sort” ↗