Quotes
“This is a thought-provoking read that pushes some
of the most important new technologies to their logical—and sometimes scary—conclusions.” Financial Times
“The Zero Marginal
Cost Society is admirable in its scope. Rifkin offers a wide-ranging
overview of the kind of tech advances that will redefine how many people live
in the coming decades.” Fortune
“Intriguing.” Kirkus Reviews
“Jeremy Rifkin offers an ambitious and optimistic image of how a
commons-based, collaborative model of the economy could displace
industrial capitalism when the economic and social practices of the
Internet are extended to energy, logistics, and material fabrication.
Even skeptical readers, concerned with the ubiquitous surveillance and
exquisite social control that these same technologies enable, should
find the vision exhilarating and its exposition thought provoking.” Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School
“If you want to understand why we are in the midst of a massive paradigm
shift from an age of top-down, centralized institutions to a world of
distributed and collaborative power, I would highly recommend reading
Jeremy Rifkin’s new book. He clearly joins the dots on how the likes of
3D printing, crowdfunding, and online education platforms are all
connected and describes the disruptions that lie just around the corner
for most sectors.” Rachel Botsman, author of What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live
“A comprehensive exploration of the implications of anyone being able to make anything.” Neil Gershenfeld, director, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
“The Zero Marginal
Cost Society confirms Jeremy Rifkin as peerless visionary of technological
trends. The future arrives only to fill in the sketches that Rifkin so ably
draws. I highly recommend as a cure for those who are perplexed about the
future of technology.” Calestous Juma, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government
“This breathtaking book connects some of today’s most
compelling technology-driven trends into a five-hundred-year spiral from commons
to capitalism and back. Rifkin has produced an intellectual joyride that takes
us to the threshold of a new economic order.” Kevin Werbach, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania