5. The future is already here!
“The conjoining of Internet
communication technology and
renewable energies is giving rise to
a Third Industrial
Revolution (TIR)
In the twenty-first century,
hundreds of
millions of human
beings will be
generating their
own green energy
in their homes,
offices, and
factories and
sharing intelligentone
another across
it with
distributed electricity networks—
an intergrid
6. Convergence
The future is already here!
of Internet
Communication Technologies and
Renewable Energies
‘Intergrid’
Internet ---
10. Renewable energy
The future is already here!
grow even faster
Internet
will
than the
A Stanford University study of
The cost of photovoltaic (PV) global wind capacity estimates
electricity is expected to that harnessing 20 percent of
decline at a rate of 8 percent the available wind on the
a year, halving the cost of planet would provide seven
generation every eight years times more electricity than the
world now uses
Source of stats: Jeremy Rifkin TIR Book
11. The future is already here!
WWS *Wind Water Sun
is the Future
12. A Global Sharing Economy:
The future is already here!
Information, Ideas, Knowledge,
Energy, Resources...
13. The future is already here!
A new ecosystem based on
Shared Resources *not sole ownership
14. Collaborative
Source: Rachel Botsman
The future is already here!
Consumption
15. The future is already here!
P2P * De-Centralized
2-way * Shared
16. The future is already here!
Inter-connected and
Inter-
dependent.
Image Source: Tiffany Shlain: Connected The Movie