The zero marginal cost society: the internet of things, the collaborative commons, and the eclipse of capitalism

The Zero Marginal Cost Society, Jeremy Rifkin's follow-up to the bestselling The Third Industrial Revolution, explores the deep economic, philosophical, psychological, and political changes in human behaviour brought on by a world where billions of human beings are engaged in relentless communication and collaboration in lateral networks in real time. Today, there are a plethora of new collaborative ventures across virtually every field of human endeavour. Collaborative research, collaborative consumption, and collaborative governance are just a few of the many areas where human beings are discovering new and better ways to live in an interconnected world. Rifkin examines how this shift is making the core values and institutions upon which we've based our lives for so long - including private property, representative democracy, and national boundaries - obsolete, and turns our attention to the new values and institutions that will propel the next great economic era.
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