Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share
“But what if I were to say to you that 25 years from now, the bulk of the energy you use to… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
With the communication internet, whole industries have been disrupted. You're in the publishing industry, you understand that. Before, we had newspapers, magazines… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Companies that actually survive and flourish are going to change their business model from production to aggregating the networks and the network… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
What's really clear to all of us in the business community is that GDP is slowing everywhere. And the reason is productivity… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“raises an interesting question about the new corporate giants that are colonizing large swaths of virtual space. He asks, “how hard would it be… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities of the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share
President Obama, I voted for him. I think he's a mature politician, but here's what happened. Obama wanted a green economy. He spent billions… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first governing document of its kind to expand the human franchise to the level of global consciousness. The language throughout the draft constitution speaks of universalism, making it clear that its focus is not a people,… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share
Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras. — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“consider the fact that a journey from New York to Chicago by stagecoach would have taken three weeks or more in 1847. By 1857,… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate itself. Desacralization is a process that allows us to sever any relationship we might feel to other living things. By draining the aliveness out of things, we can pretend that our control and manipulation are… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share
