Jeremy Rifkin - The Empathic Civilization

Posted by SMN on 31 March 2010 | 0 Comments

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This fascinating and erudite talk by Jeremy Rifkin for Google explores how "empathetic consciousness" restructures the ways people organize their personal lives, approach knowledge, pursue science and technology, conduct commerce and governance, and orchestrate civil society. Rifkin presents the idea that major changes in human consciousness occur when new communication and energy technologies allow a greater empathic embrace with other human beings. It is a fact-packed and mind-stretching presentation that is 57 mins long, but well worth watching in full.

Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of seventeen bestselling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment, such as The European Dream, The Hydrogen Economy, The Age of Access, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work.