Jeremy Rifkin: "We are more and more connected in our biosphere as we are in the blogosphere"

Jeremy Rifkin is one of the great thinkers of our time. He teaches at Wharton University and advises a number of CEO's and chief of government such as Angela Merkel or Jose Luis Zappatero. In his last book, "The Empathic Civilization", Rifkin shows how human being a naturally leaning towards empathy rather than confrontation with others. Our education and cultural framework, a.o., drive us in kind of "we vs them" mindset.
Nowadays, with the rise of oil prices, the global warming, we are getting conscious of that we belong to the same biosphere, where we are all interconnected, such as in the blogosphere. What you earn, I'm not losing it. Thus, that new state of mind fosters collaborative behaviour within huge networks.
That is what is coming with the third industrial revolution, that relies on four pillars.
One of them is that any building in the future will become its own power plant. All surplus will land on the grid. Energy will become like the internet is today, with a lot of contributers capable of interacting directly with each other to exchange power, as we exhange information today in the blogosphere.
The politcal opposition, tomorrow, according to Jeremy Rifkin, won't be between left and right, but between advocates of vertical, patriarcal, closed models and those who support horizontal, open source, distributed, interconnected models.

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[urdun66]

Jeremey knows and doesn't want to come out and say it but, the pay to live paradigm, where you have to pay to survivve, will no longer be necessary in the distribuitive model. He won't money is out because he knows how people's reaction will be. He lets us come to this conculsion on our own