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After the industrial revolution, western countries entered industrial society. Industrial society is using much amount of energy to sustain its economic activities. Because of this, Industrial society has faced two energy problems. 1) Does supply limit of exhaustible energy constrain the economic development? 2) Does global warming because of large amount of fossil fuel consumption harm the environment of the earth? Economists have analyzed these problems. As to the first one, economists are rather optimistic because market mechanism could settle it. As to the second one, they are not so optimistic because their models say that there is no economically viable solution if the damage is substantial. Since late seventies, IT revolution has begun. IT revolution is the macro invention, and it will change the social structure and industrial society will be changed to the IT society. Then, the nature of energy problems would change. There are two problems in the IT society. First one is how to use non-exhaustible energy sources economically and second one is how to build the energy distribution network which is essentially P2P. Economists have faced new challenges to get a meaningful solution for these problems.
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2003-08-20