[P2P-F] [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: Update from the Office of Jeremy Rifkin

[Anna Harris]

Hi Bob,

The link to the plan for Nords pas de Calais;
http://www.accenture.com/sitecollectiondocuments/pdf/accenture-third-industrial-revolution-master-plan.pdf


Glad you find this interesting. So do I.

Anna



On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at 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?
>
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