The Industrial Revolution, driven by oil and other fossil fuels, is heading towards a dangerous end: energy and food prices have skyrocketed, unemployment remains high, the real estate market has collapsed, private and public debt is rising, and economic recovery is delayed.

Faced with the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperately searching for a sustainable economic plan for the future. In this book, Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy sources converge to create the 'Third Industrial Revolution.'

He asks us to imagine hundreds of millions of people producing their own green energy in their homes, offices, and factories, and sharing it among themselves through an 'energy Internet,' in the same way we currently create and share information on the Internet.

The Third Industrial Revolution is the account of a man who deeply understands the developments for the next economic era.