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renewable Energy Internet, and a (Marginal cost is the cost of producing Post reported from Beijing on
digitalized automated Transportation an additional unit of a good or service, October 29th that "Chinese Premier
and Logistics Internet, bringing after fixed costs have been absorbed.) Li Keqiang has not only read Jeremy
communication, energy, and mobility Rifkin's book, The Third Industrial
into a new nexus. These three For the past fourteen years, Mr. Rifkin Revolution, and taken it to heart. He
Internets ride atop a platform called has advised the three presidents of and his colleagues have also made it
the Internet of Things. Sensors are the European Commission - Romano the core of the country's thirteenth
being embedded into every device Prodi, Jose Manuel Barroso, and Five-Year Plan..." The Huffington Post
and appliance, allowing them to currently Jean-Claude Juncker - as goes on to say that "this blueprint
communicate with each other and well as the European Parliament, for China's future signals the most
Internet users, providing up to the and EU heads of state, including momentous shift in direction since the
moment data on the managing, Germany's Angela Merkel, on the death of Mao and the advent of Deng
powering, and moving of economic ushering in of a smart green Third Xiaoping's reform and opening up in
activity in a smart digital society. Industrial Revolution economy. 1978."
In this expanded digital economy, According to EurActiv, Jeremy Rifkin Mr. Rifkin has taught in the Executive
enterprises connected to the Internet is an American economist and author Education program at the Wharton
of Things can use Big Data and whose best-selling Third Industrial School since 1995.
analytics to develop algorithms that Revolution arguably provided the
speed aggregate efficiency, increase blueprint for Germany’s transition to Mr. Rifkin is ranked 123 in the
productivity, and dramatically lower a low-carbon economy, and China’s WorldPost / HuffingtonPost 2015
the ecological footprint and marginal strategic acceptance of climate global survey of "The World's Most
cost of producing and distributing policy." See the link here. Influential Voices." Mr. Rifkin is
goods and services, making also listed among the top 10 most
European and Chinese businesses Mr. Rifkin has also been advising the influential economic thinkers in the
more competitive in an emerging leadership of the Peoples Republic of survey. n
postcarbon global marketplace. China in recent years. The Huffington
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