Full Title: America 3.0 The Resilient Society: A Smart Third Industrial Revolution Infrastructure and the Recovery of the American Economy
Author(s): Jeremy Rifkin
Publisher(s): TIR Consulting Group, LLC
Publication Date: July 29, 2021
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Description (excerpt):
We are on the cusp of a Third Industrial Revolution. The digitized broadband Communication Internet is converging with a digitized Continental Electricity Internet, powered by solar and wind electricity, and a digitized Mobility and Logistics Internet made up of autonomous electric and fuel-cell vehicles, powered from the electricity internet. These three internets are continuously being fed data from sensors embedded across society that are monitoring activity of all kinds in real time, from ecosystems, agricultural fields, warehouses, road systems, factory production lines, retail stores, and especially from the residential, commercial, and institutional building stock, allowing humanity to more efficiently manage, power, and move day-to-day economic activity and social life from where they work and live. This is the Internet of Things (IoT). In the coming era, buildings will be retrofitted for energy efficiency and climate resilience and embedded with IoT infrastructure. They will also be equipped with edge data centers, giving the public direct control over how their data is collected, used, and shared. Smart buildings will also serve as green micro power-generating plants, energy storage sites, and transport and logistics hubs for electric and fuel cell vehicles in a more distributed zero-emission society. Buildings in the Third Industrial Revolution will no longer be passive, walled-off private spaces but, rather, potentially actively engaged nodal entities sharing their renewable energies, energy efficiencies, energy storage, electric mobility, and a wide range of other economic and social activity with one another at the discretion of their occupants. Self-reliant, smart buildings are an essential component of the emerging Resilient Society