Age of Access : The New Culture of Hypercapitalism

by Rifkin, Jeremy (Author)

• ISBN13: 9781585420827
• ISBN10: 1585420824
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

Visionary activist and author Jeremy Rifkin exposes the real stakes of the new economy, delivering "the clearest summation yet of how the Internet is really changing our lives" ( The Seattle Times). Imagine 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.

Author Biography

Jeremy Rifkin is a fellow at the Wharton School Executive Education Program

Table of Contents

Part I The Next Capitalist Frontier
Entering the Age of Access	3	(13)
When Markets Give Way to Networks	16	(14)
The Weightless Economy	30	(26)
Monopolizing Ideas	56	(17)
Everything Is a Service	73	(23)
Commodifying Human Relationships	96	(18)
Access as a Way of Life	114	(23)
Part II Enclosing the Cultural Commons
The New Culture of Capitalism	137	(31)
Mining the Culture Landscape	168	(18)
A Postmodern Stage	186	(32)
The Connected and the Disconnected	218	(17)
Toward an Ecology of Culture and Capitalism	235	(32)
Notes	267	(24)
Bibliography	291	(13)
Index	304