Disruptive digital technologies are poised to reshape world energy markets. A new wave of industrial innovation, driven by the convergence of automation, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics, is remaking energy and transportation systems in ways that could someday end the age of oil. What are the consequences—not only for the environment and for daily life but also for geopolitics and the international order?
Amy Myers Jaffe provides an expert look at the promises and challenges of the future of energy, highlighting what the United States needs to do to maintain its global influence in a post-oil era. She surveys new advances coming to market in on-demand travel services, automation, logistics, energy storage, artificial intelligence, and 3-D printing and explores how this rapid pace of innovation is altering international security dynamics in fundamental ways. As the United States vacillates politically about its energy trajectory, China is proactively striving to become the global frontrunner in a full-scale global energy transformation. In order to maintain its leadership role, Jaffe argues, the United States must embrace the digital revolution and foster American achievement. Bringing together analyses of technological innovation, energy policy, and geopolitics, Energy’s Digital Future gives indispensable insight into the path the United States will need to pursue to ensure its lasting economic competitiveness and national security in a new energy age.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Lessons from History: Nothing Is Inevitable
2. Revolutionizing the Link: Energy and Advanced Economic Development
3. China’s Energy Strategy
4. Meet the Jetsons: Revolutionary Transport Via Automation and Data
5. Alexa: Beam Me Up Clean Energy
6. The Energy Future and the Possibility of Peak Oil Demand
7. Energy Investor Dystopia
8. The Losers: The Changing Geopolitics of Oil
9. Geopolitics of a Greening Economy
Conclusion: Recommendations for the United States
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Sobre o autor
Amy Myers Jaffe is director of the Energy, Climate Justice, and Sustainability Lab and a research professor at New York University’s School of Professional Studies. She is cochair of the Women in Energy Initiative at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Climate Policy Lab at Tufts University. She is coauthor of
Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold (2009) and coeditor of
Natural Gas and Geopolitics: From 1970 to 2040 (2006), among other books.
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