Thanks, Anna,
This is turning into an interesting conversation. (To me, anyway...)
Hope it is not too tiresome for you. I appreciate your substantive
responses to my poking-for-holes.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Anna Harris <anna@shsh.co.uk> wrote:
> Perhaps what has so far not been part of the discussion is that Rifkin has already helped to set up 5 areas
> where the principles of the Third Industrial Revolution (TIR) are already being implemented, the latest being
> that of Nords-pas-de-Calais in France, in 2013. All the reports are online, and can be read.
Is this the best place to look?
http://www.thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/masterPlan.cfm
> You are preaching to the converted about more labour intensive agriculture and less mechanisation.
Actually, I think more mechanisation is also possible in smaller-scale
labor-intensive ag, but it would be very different mechanisation. Not
much money in it for big ag. Organic farmers around us love 1940's
farm equipment, for example. And the pedal-powered lay-down work carts
Michel tipped me to recently. And the Amish hackers:
http://kk.org/thetechnium/2009/02/amish-hackers-a/
And what Steve Bosserman and his ecosystemic collaborators are working
on in Tanzania:
http://tip.webfactional.com/accounting/projects/
We got a farmer-inventor near us who is also dreaming about
small-scale cheap robots.
> Now Roberto has given a much better explanation.
Missed Roberto's explanation somehow. Where should I have seen it?