<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Bob,<br><br></div>The link to the plan for Nords pas de Calais;<br><a href="http://www.accenture.com/sitecollectiondocuments/pdf/accenture-third-industrial-revolution-master-plan.pdf">http://www.accenture.com/sitecollectiondocuments/pdf/accenture-third-industrial-revolution-master-plan.pdf</a><br><br></div><br></div>Glad you find this interesting. So do I.<br><br></div>Anna<br><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Bob Haugen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.haugen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.haugen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks, Anna,<br>
<br>
This is turning into an interesting conversation. (To me, anyway...)<br>
<br>
Hope it is not too tiresome for you. I appreciate your substantive<br>
responses to my poking-for-holes.<br>
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Anna Harris <<a href="mailto:anna@shsh.co.uk">anna@shsh.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> Perhaps what has so far not been part of the discussion is that Rifkin has already helped to set up 5 areas<br>
> where the principles of the Third Industrial Revolution (TIR) are already being implemented, the latest being<br>
> that of Nords-pas-de-Calais in France, in 2013. All the reports are online, and can be read.<br>
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</span>Is this the best place to look?<br>
<a href="http://www.thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/masterPlan.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.thethirdindustrialrevolution.com/masterPlan.cfm</a><br>
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> You are preaching to the converted about more labour intensive agriculture and less mechanisation.<br>
<br>
</span>Actually, I think more mechanisation is also possible in smaller-scale<br>
labor-intensive ag, but it would be very different mechanisation. Not<br>
much money in it for big ag. Organic farmers around us love 1940's<br>
farm equipment, for example. And the pedal-powered lay-down work carts<br>
Michel tipped me to recently. And the Amish hackers:<br>
<a href="http://kk.org/thetechnium/2009/02/amish-hackers-a/" target="_blank">http://kk.org/thetechnium/2009/02/amish-hackers-a/</a><br>
<br>
And what Steve Bosserman and his ecosystemic collaborators are working<br>
on in Tanzania:<br>
<a href="http://tip.webfactional.com/accounting/projects/" target="_blank">http://tip.webfactional.com/accounting/projects/</a><br>
<br>
We got a farmer-inventor near us who is also dreaming about<br>
small-scale cheap robots.<br>
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> Now Roberto has given a much better explanation.<br>
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</span>Missed Roberto's explanation somehow. Where should I have seen it?<br>
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