You’re a medical director. Your shift is almost over as you slip into your desk chair for a quick respite. You spin around to look out the window. It’s snowing. There’s a layer of fluffy snow covering the ground. As you gaze upon this blanket of virgin snow you crack a slight smile. You’re filled […]
Read More
Archive for Jeremy Rifkin – Page 2
Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
October 18, 2016
The Love Wars—Harry Harlow and the All Night Comfort Food Café (part I)
Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
August 29, 2016
“This Changes Everything—Capitalism vs The Climate”—What I Learned
Author’s note: I am simulposting this post both at LinkedIn Pulse and at Bowlby Less Traveled. I recently finished reading Naomi Klein’s 2014 book entitled This Changes Everything—Capitalism vs The Climate. I received a copy of Klein’s book from a friend who knew that I had previously enjoyed reading Klein’s 2007 book entitled The Shock […]
Read More
Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
February 16, 2016
Securely Attached: Automation and the New Valued Employee (LIP)
Author’s Note: I recently signed up for an account over at LinkedIn, the social networking site for businesses and business people. I created a LinkedIn account because I was regularly receiving invitations from friends and colleagues. LinkedIn has a blog service known as LinkedIn Pulse. I thought it might be fun to write a few […]
Read More
Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
June 30, 2015
Of Digital Billionaires and Analog Beggars—Entering the Age of Disruption
We are entering a new age of robber barons who wish to disrupt our old economic and social ways. Who are these new robber barons? Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame; Michael and Xochi Birch of Bebo fame (which was sold to AOL for $850 million in 2008); Peter Thiel, an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, hedge […]
Read MoreRecent Posts
- The Drama of Earth Systems (Pt 3) April 21, 2024
- The Drama of Earth Systems (Pt 2) April 13, 2024
- The Drama of Earth Systems (Pt 1) April 5, 2024
Search Our Site
Search By Date
Follow us on
Bowlby Less Traveled (BLT)
Copyright © 2024 All Rights Reserved
Copyright © 2024 All Rights Reserved
By continuing to use this site, you consent to our use of cookies.Got It!Privacy policy
Rifkin’s Economic Fight of the Century—Capitalism vs “Commons”-ism—Called Because of Extreme Weather and No Electricity (part I)
Welcome to part I of a two-part post. Economist and educator Jeremy Rifkin in his 2014 book entitled The Zero Marginal Cost Society—The Internet of Things, The Collaborative Commons, and The Eclipse of Capitalism, delivers what I consider to be an “annual report” of sorts for the Internet. Actually, three Internets: The Internet of Communication, […]
Read More