The Third Industrial Revolution; How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World is a book by Jeremy Rifkin published in 2011. The premise of the book is that fundamental economic change occurs when new technologies converge with new energy regimes, mainly, renewable electricity. The sharing economy is also a crucial element of the Third Industrial Revolution.

The book has been on the New York Times Best Seller List and. Rifkin has been interviewed on NPR.

In 2017, Vice Media starring Jeremy Rifkin.

* The Economist: The Third Industrial Revolution – The digitization of manufacturing will change the politics of jobs