The Third Industrial Revolution

Join Jeremy Rifkin as he describes how the five-pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution will create thousands of businesses and millions of jobs, and usher in a fundamental reordering of human relationships, from hierarchical to lateral power, that will impact the way we conduct business, govern society, educate our children, and engage in civic life.

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[mysterywhiteboy72]

Sounds like a transitional phase towards a Resource Based Economy to me. <3

[machinevos]

This talk should be animated.

[MrJamesilongiii]

Where is the money going to come from for this all or nothing green dream?

[xXuknowhoitisXx]

@ShowSomeLove89 His point still ends up that we cant possibly substain ourselfs for the next 50+ years

ps im 16

[TinyCaptainObviouss]

Lateral. Laterally. I KNEW he was selling SOMETHING other than an idea - The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World. And the kids he's talking about? They know what the best gun to use in MW3 or what the Kardashians are up to. Yet they can't/won't rake a leaf or shovel snow and expect everything for free. I'll have what he's having, please. Make mine a double!

[roidroid]

@kekeke01 oh i'm glad i'm not the only one who cringed everytime he made that analogy.

[roidroid]

@TheSelfGoverned it's just another Malthusian catastrophe that we'll solve, same as we always do.

It's fun solving these things.

[thdyoung]

conservative with a small 'c' might bear some relation to resource management. IOW, the plain spoken meaning of conservative has been lost, replaced by neo-con, tea-party and other unhelpful habits of thought. Going easy with remaining resources is sensible. Unfortunately, it means making choices that are very difficult. Something is going to have to give. The biggest part of a green revolution will be using less. That's the main way it might work. Assuming normal consumption is delusional.

[roidroid]

@thdyoung Solar Furnace

[roidroid]

i really liked it from 18:20 onwards, how the current generation of kids thinks differently:

>"the young kids they don't think right/left... don't think capitalism/socialism, liberal/conservative. When they judge institutional behaviour - the internet generation - they ask is this institution centralised, patriarchal, top down, closed and proprietary...or is this institutional behaviour distributed, collaborative, open, transparent and lateral. That's all the spectrum we need to get it right"

[ipwnorcs]

@ShowSomeLove89 Global government and integration is the wave of the future, sorry. What matters is who controls it: the workers of the world or a small parasitic group? It will take struggle to accomplish the former, but pointless fear will make the latter easier.