{"product_id":"the-age-of-access-isbn-9781585420827","title":"The Age of Access","description":"Visionary activist and author \u003cb\u003eJeremy Rifkin\u003c\/b\u003e exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering \"the clearest summation yet of how the Internet is really changing our lives\" (\u003cb\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/b\u003e).\u003cp\u003eImagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside your immediate family has become a \"paid-for\" experience.  It's all part of a fundamental change taking place in the nature of business, contends Jeremy Rifkin. After several hundred years as the dominant organizing paradigm of civilization, the traditional market system is beginning to deconstruct. On the horizon looms the Age of Access, an era radically different from any we have known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Next Capitalist Frontier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Entering the Age of Access\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: When Markets Give Way to Networks\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: The Weightless Economy\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: Monopolizing Ideas\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: Everything Is a Service\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Commodifying Human Relationships\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: Access as a Way of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Enclosing the Cultural Commons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: The New Culture of Capitalism\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: Mining the Cultural Landscape\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten: A Postmodern Stage\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven: The Connected and the Disconnected\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve: Toward an Ecology of Culture and Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\"One basic economic rule, as Mr. Rifkin points out, has not changed since Roman times: caveat emptor. In the brave new wired world, it will be ever more difficult for the buyer to beware of technology speeding forward in nanoseconds, controlled by global giants.\"         --\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rifkin's vision of corporate capitalism dematerializing into webs of access of networks of 'virtual' power is startling and compelling.\"     --\u003cb\u003eWilliam Greider, author of One World, Ready or Not\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the most popular social thinkers of our time, Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe European Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hydrogen Economy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Access\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Biotech Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe End of Work\u003c\/i\u003e. A fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program, he is president of The Foundation on Economic Trends in Bethesda, MD.","brand":"Tarcher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299875475685,"sku":"NP9781585420827","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781585420827.jpg?v=1767738025","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-age-of-access-isbn-9781585420827","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}