The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

By Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen

In an exceptional collaboration, prime international thinkers in expertise and overseas affairs provide us their commonly expected, transformational imaginative and prescient of the long run: a global the place everyone seems to be connected—a global choked with demanding situations and merits which are ours to satisfy and to harness.

Eric Schmidt is one in all Silicon Valley’s nice leaders, having taken Google from a small startup to at least one of the world’s such a lot influential businesses. Jared Cohen is the director of Google rules and a former adviser to secretaries of kingdom Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. With their mixed wisdom and reports, the authors are uniquely situated to tackle a few of the hardest questions about our destiny: Who should be extra strong sooner or later, the citizen or the nation? Will know-how make terrorism more uncomplicated or tougher to hold out? what's the dating among privateness and safeguard, and what kind of do we need to hand over to be a part of the recent electronic age?

during this groundbreaking booklet, Schmidt and Cohen mix commentary and perception to stipulate the promise and peril looking forward to us within the coming a long time. right away pragmatic and inspirational, this can be a forward-thinking account of the place our international is headed and what this implies for individuals, states and businesses.

With the boldness and readability of visionaries, Schmidt and Cohen illustrate simply how a lot we need to glance ahead to—and pay attention of—as the best details and know-how revolution in human heritage maintains to adapt. On person, group and country degrees, throughout each geographical and socioeconomic spectrum, they demonstrate the dramatic developments—good and bad—that will rework either our daily lives and our figuring out of self and society, as expertise advances and our digital identities turn into progressively more essentially real.

As Schmidt and Cohen’s nuanced imaginative and prescient of the close to destiny unfolds, an city specialist takes his driverless automobile to paintings, attends conferences through hologram and dispenses house responsibilities robots by way of voice; a Congolese fisherwoman makes use of her shrewdpermanent cellphone to watch industry call for and coordinate revenues (saving on high priced refrigeration and fighting overfishing); the capability arises for “virtual statehood” and “Internet asylum” to free up political dissidents and oppressed minorities, but in addition for tech-savvy autocracies (and probably democracies) to take advantage of their electorate’ cellular units for ever extra ubiquitous surveillance. alongside the best way, we meet a cadre of foreign figures—including Julian Assange—who clarify their very own visions of our technology-saturated future.

Inspiring, provocative and soaking up, The New electronic Age is an excellent research of ways our hyper-connected global will quickly glance, from of our so much prescient and educated public thinkers.

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