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Mr. Rifkin has been advising the leadership of the European Union
over the past 14 years, and more recently, has been advising the
leadership of the People’s Republic of China.
Mr. Rifkin is a principle architect of the European Union’s long
term Third Industrial Revolution economic vision and development
plan to usher in an internet of things digital infrastructure across
the European Union and its partnership regions to create a smart
post-carbon economy and the world’s largest single integrated
economic marketplace. The plan is called "Smart Europe."
The Smart Europe Third throughout history. Every great on national road systems converged
Industrial Revolution long- economic paradigm requires three to create an infrastructure for the
term economic development elements, each of which interacts Second Industrial Revolution.
plan will be formally announced with the other to enable the
by the European Commission in system to operate as a whole: new Today, the European Union and
February 2017. Mr. Rifkin's global communication technologies to more China have taken up Mr. Rifkin's
consulting consortium, TIR Consulting efficiently manage economic activity; economic vision and are laying the
Group LLC, is currently advising new sources of energy to more groundwork for a smart digital Third
the European Commission on the efficiently power economic activity; Industrial Revolution. Jean-Claude
deployment of the Smart Europe and new modes of transportation Juncker, President of the European
initiative and will be working with the to more efficiently move economic Commission, has introduced a new
350 formal regions of the EU in the activity. long-term economic vision and
creation of road maps to deploy the development plan called "Smart
new economic narrative and vision In the 19th century, steam-powered Europe," while President Xi and
across Europe. printing and the telegraph, abundant Premier Li of China have introduced
coal, and locomotives on national a similar vision called “China Internet
To grasp the enormity of the Smart rail systems gave rise to the First Plus.”
Europe transformation taking Industrial Revolution. In the 20th
place, we need to understand the Century, centralized electricity, the In both the EU and China, the
technological forces that have given telephone, radio and television, cheap digitalized communication Internet
rise to new economic systems oil, and internal combustion vehicles is converging with a digitalized
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