Jeremy Rifkin - The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

Full Lecture which took place at Ross Institute's August 2010 Summer Academy.

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[XSilvenX]

Took me about 3 days to watch but this was Amazing.

I suppose I can't blame students in this day and age. Like them, I got the natural yearn for learning beaten out of me by the monotony that is school. Sure, I learned some things...but most of my learning has been done on my own. Self-guided and not force fed in a rushed fashion in a classroom with 29 other students. I think school is a great foundation and a springboard for social relations but the real learning comes after you graduate.

[TheEpicmonday]

Great talk full of rocksolid facts. And if anyone doubts the soundness of the fundamental social nature of humans, just take a look at the explosive development of social media in the last years. We are definately moving toward global consciousness, the question is whether it will happen in time.

[786swe]

I hate to burst his bubble. He's grossly mistaken about human nature of the selfish gene, a book written by Dawkins.

[Thiswaybefore]

This 2nd industrial revolution based economy reached its limits because all thermodinamic systems have an entropic horizon. Behond that horizon lies extinction or evolution. We have reached ours. We will most probably evolve, wich means a lot of people will die in a short amount of time. It will be painfull but that will also means entropy levels will decrease drastically giving us the opportunity to operate structural changes in the way we exist in the biosphere provided we learn something