Jeremy Rifkin
Economic and social theorist, born in 1945, whose The End of Work (1995) argued that information technology would eliminate jobs on a vast scale unless its productivity gains were shared.
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Their wordsThere are a few reasons that I am more optimistic today than I was in 1995.
↗The End of Work Revisited (strategy+business, interview by Theodore Kinni)strategy-business.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsFirst, the nonprofit sector—the social commons—has been growing even faster than I had envisioned.
↗The End of Work Revisited (strategy+business, interview by Theodore Kinni)strategy-business.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsThe nonprofit community is also the fastest-growing employment sector, outstripping both the government and private sectors in many countries.
↗The End of Work Revisited (strategy+business, interview by Theodore Kinni)strategy-business.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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The Internet of Things will make the social commons the dominant economic paradigm of the century
Their wordsThe IoT will bring the social commons out of the shadows, giving it a high-tech platform to become the dominant economic paradigm of the 21st century.
↗The End of Work Revisited (strategy+business, interview by Theodore Kinni)strategy-business.com 4th of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsthe long-term trend is toward ever higher rates of unemployment.
↗The End of Work (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995)archive.org All 2 from this book
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Their wordsWhether a Utopian or dystopian future awaits us depends, to a great measure, on how the productivity gains of the Information Age are distributed.
↗The End of Work (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995)archive.org All 2 from this book