A Third Industrial Revolution

ron — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:21:10 +0000

The pivotal economic changes in world history occur when new energy regimes converge with new communication regimes. Today, the technology that made possible the IT and internet revolutions is coming together with renewable energy and hydrogen and fuel cell storage technology to create the foundation for a third industrial revolution and a post-carbon, post-nuclear era. In 25 years, businesses and homeowners will produce much of their own power with locally available renewable energy, and store it in the form of hydrogen. Surplus energy will be shared with others via an intelligent “intergrid” just as we now produce our own information and share it with others via the internet. This revolution will help usher in a near zero-emission energy era.
Jeremy Rifkin is an adviser on climate changet to the EU commission

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If I.T. Merged With E.T.

ron — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:12:21 +0000

Ethakota, India

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Thomas L. Friedman

Well, here’s something you don’t see every day. I was visiting an Indian village 350 miles east of Hyderabad and got to watch a very elderly Indian man undergo an EKG in a remote clinic, while a heart specialist, hundreds of miles away in Bangalore, watched via satellite TV and dispensed a diagnosis. This kind of telemedicine is the I.T. revolution at its best. But what struck me most was that just underneath the TV screen, powering the whole endeavor, were 16 car batteries — the E.T., energy technology, revolution, at its worst.

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A Third Industrial Revolution

If I.T. Merged With E.T.