Jeremy Rifkin





Jeremy Rifkin

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born
Denver, CO, The United States
gender
male

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Average rating: 3.72 · 1,560 ratings · 191 reviews · 38 distinct works · Similar authors
The European Dream: How Eur...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions
The Empathic Civilization: ...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions
The End of Work
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions
The Third Industrial Revolu...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
Beyond Beef: The Rise and F...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
The Hydrogen Economy
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions
Entropy
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions
The Age of Access: The New ...
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
The Biotech Century
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
Time Wars: The Primary Conf...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions
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“It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities of the outside world. The printed word evokes the modern notion of security, with the emphasis on detachment, privacy, autonomy, predictability, and enclosed artificiality.”
Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work

“Time goes forward because energy itself is always moving from an available to an unavailable state. Our consciousness is continually recording the entropy change in the world around us. We watch our friends get old and die. We sit next to a fire and watch it's red-hot embers turn slowly into cold white ashes. We experience the world always changing around us, and that experience is the unfolding of the second law. It is the irreversible process of dissipation of energy in the world. What does it mean to say, 'The world is running out of time'? Simply this: we experience the passage of time by the succession of one event after another. And every time an event occurs anywhere in this world energy is expended and the overall entropy is increased. To say the world is running out of time then, to say the world is running out of usable energy. In the words of Sir Arthur Eddington, 'Entropy is time's arrow'.”
Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy

“Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.”
Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work



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