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 communication technologies converge with new energy regimes, mainly, renewable electricity.

[1] The sharing economy is also explored as a crucial element of the Third Industrial Revolution.

The book has been on the New York Times Best Seller List.

[3][4] In 2017 a documentary based on the book was released by Vice Media starring Jeremy Rifkin.