Authors: Jeremy Rifkin
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (59 page)
and AT&T,
49
–51
and effect on capitalism,
3
“natural monopoly,”
8
,
50
–51,
136
–138,
203
–204
temporary,
8
Montreuil, Benoit,
219
–220
Moore, Gordon,
79
–82
More, Sir Thomas,
31
Moss, Frank,
242
music sharing,
232
Music Xray,
130
Myspace,
201
National
Human Genome Research Institute,
169
Resources Defense Council (NRDC),
147
Science Foundation,
96
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA),
149
near zero marginal cost society, 68–151
ascent of the prosumer and the build-out of the smart economy,
extreme productivity, the Internet of Things, and free energy,
69
–87
getting closer to,
84
–87
the last worker standing,
121
–133
and marginal cost controversy,
135
–138
MOOCs,
109
–119
reluctance to come to grips with,
5
3D printing,
89
–108
see also
paradigm shift from market capitalism to Collaborative Commons
network neutrality,
197
–198,
203
The New Capitalist Manifesto
(Haque),
253
Networked Commons,
119
,
151
,
173
,
190
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194
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202
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212
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,
229
–233,
237
–241,
309
Newmark, Craig,
249
The New York Times,
5
,
129
,
251
,
281
Noubel, Jean-Francois,
262
Obama, President Barack,
71
–72,
128
Occupy Movement,
57
oil
crude oil reserves are dwindling,
86
–87
and infrastructure,
72
mass production of automobiles, effect on,
52
–53
and the Second Industrial Revolution,
47
–54
see also
fossil fuel(s); Hall, Andy
online higher education.
see
massive open online courses (MOOCs)
Open Source Initiative (OSI),
176
“optimum general welfare,”
3
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
21
,
277
The Origin of Species
(Darwin),
64
Ostrom, Elinor,
158
–162,
175
,
190
Paine, Thomas,
65
paradigm shift from market capitalism to Collaborative Commons,
1
–25
and changing the economic paradigm,
9
–11
and the Internet of Things,
11
–16
and the rise of the Collaborative Commons,
16
–25
Parkifi,
145
–146
Patagonia,
263
patent(s),
138
,
165
–167,
170
,
174
–177,
180
–181,
202
patient-driven research (PDR),
19
,
240
–247
peer-to-peer social lending,
255
–257
Perens, Bruce,
176
Perlow, Jason,
128
Perry, Mark J.,
122
–123
Personal Genome Project,
180
The Philosophy of Money
(Simmel),
259
phone, importance of,
49
–51
population, key to stabilization of,
285
poverty,
21
,
107
–112,
209
,
264
,
275
–278,
283
–286
print, and the impact it had on the way we do business,
35
–36,
178
–179
printing press(es),
33
–37,
44
–45
privacy, age of,
75
–77
property relations, notion of,
30
–32
prosumer(s)
ascent of the,
135
–151
beyond governments and markets,
150
–151
and the clean web,
144
–147
and free wi-fi for everyone,
147
–149
and power to the people,
138
–144
protests to reclaim the public Commons,
187
–188
QR code,
127
Quigg, Donald J.,
166
rallying around free software,
174
–177
Raspberry Pi,
80
Raymond, Eric S.,
176
–177
RelayRides,
228
rental(s)/renting.
see
social capital and the sharing economy
reputation rankings on the web,
257
–259
reviews, consumer-generated,
248
–249
rise in collaborative innovation,
21
Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers,
212
–213
Rockefeller, John D.,
48
–49
Rose, Carol,
157
–158
Rowe, Jonathan 190
Ruben, Andy,
237
–238
Rural Electric Administration (REA),
209
–210
Say, Jean-Baptiste,
3
Say’s Law,
3
scarcity.
see
abundance
Schelgel, Heather,
262
Scherzer, Norman,
243
Schor, Juliet,
280
Science,
155
“The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain” (Boyle),
181
–182
sensors, use of,
11
–13,
73
–74,
143
,
219
,
230
Shareable,
238
SharedEarth,
239
sharing economy/good(s).
see
social capital and the sharing economy
Siemens,
14
–15
Simmel, Georg,
259
Skoll Foundation,
265
–266
smart cities,
12
smart grid(s),
142
–144,
149
,
205
–206,
294
Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security (SPIDERS),
295
“smart” and “sustainable” society.
see
The Internet of Things (IoT)
Smith, Adam,
3
,
11
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33
,
40
–41,
61
,
107
,
159
,
306
–307
Smith, Alan,
123
Smith, Zach “Hoken,”
94
social
Commons.
see
Collaborative Commons
entrepreneurs,
19
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21
,
99
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101
,
103
,
119
,
144
–147,
238
,
262
–269,
298
,
309
trust,
234
web, four phases of,
234
social capital and the sharing economy,
223
–269
and advertising, the end of traditional,
247
–252
and automobile sharing,
225
–231
and bike sharing,
227
and a biosphere lifestyle,
297
–303
and clothing/accessories sharing,
236
crowdfunding capital,
19
,
146
,
256
–257,
269
democratizing currency,
259
–262
and garden sharing,
239
–240
and healthcare,
240
–247
humanizing entrepreneurship,
263
–266
and letting go of ownership,
231
–234
and lodging sharing,
234
–235
and music sharing,
232
rethinking work,
266
–269
shift from exchange value to sharable value,
20
and the sustainable cornucopia,
273
–296
and toy sharing,
235
and the transformation from ownership to access,
225
–254
Social Darwinism,
63
–64
social entrepreneurship,
262
–266
Social Psychological and Personality Science,
282
solar power,
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–86,
90
,
95
,
98
,
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–140,
145
–148,
215
,
227
,
253
,
256
–257,
294
–295
Solow, Robert,
71
Spencer, Herbert,
63
–64
Spotify,
145
Stallman, Richard M.,
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–176,
179
,
182
,
185
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
(Kuhn),
9
suburbanization, caused by auto/rail industry,
53
–54,
210
Summers, Lawrence,
7
–9
survival of the fittest,
63
–64,
286
sustainability,
147
,
213
,
217
,
236
–237,
249
,
274
–275,
282
,
309
swadeshi,
Ghandhi’s idea of,
105
–106
Tawney, R. H.,
61
technological employment/unemployment,
7
,
122
,
266
–269
telegraph(s), impact of,
22
,
46
,
50
,
51
,
71
,
194
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),
206
–210
textile industry,
31
,
39
–40,
124
–125,
212
thermodynamic efficiencies,
10
–15,
70
–73,
78
,
91
,
143
–144,
186
the third Industrial Revolution.
see
Collaborative Commons
The Third Industrial Revolution
(Rifkin),
11
3D printing,
89
–108
and automobiles,
98
–99
and bioprinting body parts/organs,
246
–247
and construction of buildings,
96
–97
and customization,
91
democratizing the replicator,
93
–99
differs from conventional manufacturing,
90
–92
efficiency and productivity of,
90
and feedstock,
48
,
89
,
95
–98,
101
–102
and furniture,
96
and lunar buildings,
97
and a makers infrastructure,
99
–104
marketing of,
91
and micro infofacturing,
89
–92
and a neo-Gandhian world,
104
–108
and the Solar-Sinter,
95
–96
and Xerox,
95
Thrun, Sebastian,
114
–115
Time,
253
time bank(s),
261
The Times of London,
44
Tie Society,
236
Torvalds, Linus,
175
“The Tragedy of the Commons” (Hardin),
155
–158
transborder park(s),
183
Treaty to Share the Genetic Commons,
167
–168
TrustCloud,
258
Twitter
becoming an online monopoly,
204
–205
and algorithm manipulation,
203
changes the concept of privacy,
76
as communication,
151
,
234
,
248
,
302
exploiting the Commons for commercial ends,
199
–200,
310
and freedom,
226
as a podium for activism,
189
referenced in news and entertainment reporting,
201
–202
revenue and market share,
201
and the WikiLeaks scandal,
203