By Jeremy Rifkin
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Originally titled The Age of entry: the recent tradition of Hypercapitalism, the place All of existence Is a Paid-For Experience in 2000
and then published as The Age Of entry: How The Shift From possession To entry Is remodeling sleek Life in 2001
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Visionary activist and writer Jeremy Rifkin exposes the true stakes of the recent financial system, supplying "the clearest summation but of the way the net is de facto altering our lives".
The Seattle Times
Imagine waking up sooner or later to discover that just about each job you have interaction in open air your rapid family members has develop into a "paid-for" adventure. It's all a part of a basic swap occurring within the nature of industrial, contends Jeremy Rifkin. After a number of hundred years because the dominant organizing paradigm of civilization, the normal industry procedure is commencing to deconstruct. at the horizon looms the Age of entry, an period notably assorted from any we've known.
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S. global economies — their increasing weightlessness. and New, lighter construc- tion materials, miniaturization, the substitution of information for physical content, and the expanding role of services shrinkage in the physicality of economic output. S. ^ In her book, The Weightless World, Diane Coyle reminds us that until recently, nations measured exports against imports based on sheer weight. Incredibly, the British government was still using weight to measure the value of exports versus imports as late as 1985.
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