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The Age of Access

By Jeremy Rifkin

By Jeremy Rifkin

By Jeremy Rifkin

By Jeremy Rifkin

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Mar 05, 2001 | ISBN 9781585420827

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Mar 05, 2001 | ISBN 9781101666616

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    About The Age of Access

    Visionary activist and author Jeremy Rifkin exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering “the clearest summation yet of how the Internet is really changing our lives” (The Seattle Times).

    Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside your immediate family has become a “paid-for” experience. It’s all part of a fundamental change taking place in the nature of business, contends Jeremy Rifkin. After several hundred years as the dominant organizing paradigm of civilization, the traditional market system is beginning to deconstruct. On the horizon looms the Age of Access, an era radically different from any we have known.

    About The Age of Access

    Visionary activist and author Jeremy Rifkin exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering “the clearest summation yet of how the Internet is really changing our lives” (The Seattle Times).

    Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside your immediate family has become a “paid-for” experience. It’s all part of a fundamental change taking place in the nature of business, contends Jeremy Rifkin. After several hundred years as the dominant organizing paradigm of civilization, the traditional market system is beginning to deconstruct. On the horizon looms the Age of Access, an era radically different from any we have known.

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    About Jeremy Rifkin

    One of the most popular social thinkers of our time, Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of The European Dream, The Hydrogen Economy, The Age of Access, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work. A fellow at the Wharton School’s Executive Education Program, he… More about Jeremy Rifkin

    About Jeremy Rifkin

    One of the most popular social thinkers of our time, Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of The European Dream, The Hydrogen Economy, The Age of Access, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work. A fellow at the Wharton School’s Executive Education Program, he… More about Jeremy Rifkin

    Product Details

    Category: Domestic Politics | Economics

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by TarcherPerigee
    Mar 05, 2001 | 320 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781585420827

    Category: Domestic Politics | Economics

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by TarcherPerigee
    Mar 05, 2001 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9781101666616
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    Praise

    “One basic economic rule, as Mr. Rifkin points out, has not changed since Roman times: caveat emptor. In the brave new wired world, it will be ever more difficult for the buyer to beware of technology speeding forward in nanoseconds, controlled by global giants.” —The New York Times

    “Rifkin’s vision of corporate capitalism dematerializing into webs of access of networks of ‘virtual’ power is startling and compelling.” —William Greider, author of One World, Ready or Not

    Table Of Contents

    Part I: The Next Capitalist Frontier
    Chapter One: Entering the Age of Access
    Chapter Two: When Markets Give Way to Networks
    Chapter Three: The Weightless Economy
    Chapter Four: Monopolizing Ideas
    Chapter Five: Everything Is a Service
    Chapter Six: Commodifying Human Relationships
    Chapter Seven: Access as a Way of Life

    Part II: Enclosing the Cultural Commons
    Chapter Eight: The New Culture of Capitalism
    Chapter Nine: Mining the Cultural Landscape
    Chapter Ten: A Postmodern Stage
    Chapter Eleven: The Connected and the Disconnected
    Chapter Twelve: Toward an Ecology of Culture and Capitalism

    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

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