The age of access
Subtitle: the new culture of hypercapitalism, where all of life is a paid-for experience
By: Jeremy Rifkin
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Electronic commerce; Electronic commerce -- Social aspects; Electronic data interchange; Internet -- Economic aspects; Business -- Computer network resources
Description: "Imagine waking up one day to find that virtually every activity you engage in outside your immediate family has become a "paid-for" experience. It's all part of a fundamental change taking place in the nature of business, contends author Jeremy Rifkin. On the horizon looms the Age of Access, an era radically different from any we have known.".

"Rifkin argues that the capitalist journey, which began with the commodification of goods and the ownership of property, is ending with the commodification of human time and experience. In the future, we will purchase enlightenment and play, grooming and grace, and everything in between. In the Age of Access, Rifkin asks, will any time be left for relationships of a noncommercial nature?".

"Rifkin warns that when the culture itself is absorbed into the economy, only commercial bonds will be left to hold society together. The critical question posed by The Age of Access is whether civilization can survive when only the commercial sphere remains as the primary arbiter of human life."--BooK jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-303) and index