To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Construction Industry Round Table decided to probe the future. Members heard the vision of economist Jeremy Rifkin, who sees the construction industry as an active participant in creating the “third industrial revolution.”
Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of 17 books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, workforce, society and the environment. He told the industry leaders’ group, which drew 65 of its 95 member CEOs and presidents to Grand Cayman on Oct. 28-30, that the pivotal economic changes in world history have come when new energy regimes converge with new communications regimes.