3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
our experiences. Students are encouraged to tear down the walls that separate academic
disciplines and to think in a more integrated fashion. Interdisciplinary and multicultural studies
prepare students to become comfortable entertaining different perspectives and more adept at
searching out synergies between phenomena.
The idea of learning as an autonomous private experience and the notion of knowledge as an
acquisition to be treated as a form of exclusive property made sense in the First and Second
Industrial Revolution environment. In the Collaborative Age, learning is regarded as a
crowdsourcing process and knowledge is often treated as a publically shared good, available to
all, mirroring the emerging definition of human behavior as deeply social and interactive in
nature. The shift from a more authoritarian style of learning to a more lateral learning
environment better prepares today’s students to work, live, and flourish in tomorrow’s
collaborative economy in Luxembourg.
The new collaborative pedagogy is being applied and practiced in schools and communities
around the world. The educational models in the emerging digital era are designed to free
students from the private space of the traditional enclosed classroom and allow them to learn
in multiple open Commons, in virtual space, the public square, and in the biosphere.
Rethinking primary, secondary, and university education in Luxembourg to prepare current and
future generations for employment in both the automated capitalist marketplace and the
emerging Sharing Economy will be an urgent and major priority. The Luxembourg educational
system will want to explore a range of best practices emerging in school systems around the
world, including extending the learning environment into the community with service learning
and clinical engagement, virtual learning via Skype and FaceTime in shared global classrooms,
and online learning with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
The Working Group provides a detailed summation of the myriad of challenging issues
pertinent to the emergent prosumers social modes and the Sharing Economy. The WG outlines
the social, ethical, legal, political, educational and financial questions being raised by business,
government, academia, and consumer organizations. Even a cursory glance at the research
literature already finds a prodigious number of recent publications discussing and analyzing
these manifold issues. The palpable sense of urgency in raising these concerns and elevating
them to the front and center attention of lawmakers goes to the heart of the industry
disruption witnessed over the course of the past half-decade.
The digitization and Internetization (or IoT) driving forward the TIR is going to eventually impact
every part and process of the 70 trillion euro annual global economy. While economists
sanguinely forecast 2 to 3 percent average annual growth rates this century, implying a nearly
10 to 20 fold larger global economy, it is highly questionable whether economic growth based
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