The influential economic theorist looks ahead to a world of virtually free energy andzero marginal cost production, and to a desperate race against climate change. Photograph by Hector Emanuel Most people in the business world are aware of the convergence of computer and communications technology, the shift in energy from fossil fuels ...

Jeremy Rifkin's thinking about how to build a clean-energy powered, automation-filled future is inspiring major infrastructure plans in Europe and China. Can his new Vice documentary convince American business leaders to buy in? "Either we join the global race to the new economy, or we lose it."; BYJEFF BEER First, the bad news: G...