Jeremy Rifkin

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Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation on Economic Trends on his book "The Industrial Third Reveolution"

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    1. wendyfleet  04/07/2012 05:07 PM Report

      I read TIR (Third Industrial Revolution) as soon as I saw this interview. I send the following postcard to everyone and handout postcards with the interview tinyurl at the bank, at Peets, to everyone. "I'm imploring you & XYZ to read this necessary, remarkable book, TIR. This greenprint for The Future 'just' needs to be implemented. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of German(a physicist!) is on-board with TIR . Having you read it is pebble-in-the-pool of America 'grokking' it. CRose 10 min interview at http://tinyurl.com/7rpxzmy . I implore,

    2. vongleichent  02/07/2012 08:48 AM Report

      What he also forgot to mention is that the Germans have a green political party. They always have pursued a green movement. This is part of the reason why Germany is so fare ahead.

    3. seatonlin  01/09/2012 11:22 PM Report

      This was so insightful and informative.

    4. Ricardo_Amaral  01/09/2012 10:15 PM Report

      I had a blog about the final collapse of the US dollar where I posted a bunch of unrelated things on that blog, including a lecture by Jeremy Rifkin.

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    5. Ricardo_Amaral  01/09/2012 10:13 PM Report

      Shalom, you can see a video with Jeremy Rifkin at:

      http://thefinalcollapseoftheusdollar.blogspot.com/2011/07/jeremy-rifkin.html

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    6. ShalomFreedman  01/09/2012 11:56 AM Report

      I do not know why Charlie Rose spent only ten minutes on this segment. I certainly am not qualified to judge the accuracy of what Jeremy Rifkin is saying, but he is saying something of potentially extraordinary importance. If he is right he is telling us the large economy needs to and is going to develop in the years ahead. The connection between the Energy problem and the Media Revolution of the Internet as he describes it does make much sense. I would have liked to have heard the subject explored in greater depth.

    7. REMant  01/09/2012 11:32 AM Report

      WTF is a communication-energy regime? Railroads? Automobiles? Radio? Television?

      Agriculture, manufacturing, and chemistry, of no consequence? Gimme a break. There's a lot more to economic growth than communications. And I hope Ms Merkel is smarter than Newt Gingrich. It seems Rifkin makes the Keynesian mistake of thinking trade is growth, and is simply a Whiggish sort. The problem for such "futurists" is that innovation is prodded by overpopulation and so they must embrace a Social Darwinism. Paradoxically, however, he has long considered himself a card-carrying environmentalist, etc. What it would appear Rifkin rather is, is a man on the horns of a dilemma.

      He has written a substantial number of books of this sort, all of them it seems ending up in library book sales. In the interest of full disclosure I've read only "The End of Work," which I picked up unsold at one of them several years ago. I found nothing new in it and considered him either a frustrated sci-fi writer or someone who sees himself in competition with the likes of Toffler or Drucker. As one with a sort-of scientific bent, I am constantly amazed to find so many are so busy cluttering things up rather than simplifying them. The world is basically simple, or at least it could be if ppl stopped making up stuff and use their heads.