Rifkin, Jeremy

This publication explores the epic marriage between computer technology and genetic engineering, and the historic transition into the Age of Biotechnology. Already, our economy is experiencing a massive shift away from the Industrial Age and into an era in which giant life-science corporations are fashioning a bio-industrial world.

This publication argues that the harnessing of hydrogen and fuel cells will spawn a new economic revolution in the 21st century. The new energy regime has the potential to be sustainable, non-polluting, and to provide a decentralized and democratic source of power.