“The global economy is undergoing a fundamental transformation in the nature of work brought on by the new technologies of the Industrial Age revolution. These profound technological and economic changes will force every country to rethink long-held assumptions about the nature of politics and citizenship...

"We need to ponder the unthinkable -- to prepare ourselves and our institutions for a world that is phasing out mass employment in the production and marketing of goods and services. Redefining the role of the individual in a near workerless society is likely to be the single most pressing issue in the decades to come..."

— Jeremy Rifkin, author of The End Of Work 1995