Jeremy Rifkin, one of the most popular social thinkers of our time, is the bestselling author of The Empathic Civilization, The European Dream, The Age of Access, The Hydrogen Economy, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work. An adviser to the European Union and to heads of state around the world, his work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Jeremy is a senior lecturer at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania and the president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C.