The New Digital Age
Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
About the book
Eric Schmidt, who built Google from a startup into a company of global influence, writes with Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, who once advised Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice as secretaries of state, about a fully connected future. They weigh whether citizens or states will gain more power, whether technology will make terrorism easier or harder, and how privacy relates to security. Their scenarios range from a professional commuting in a driverless car and meeting by hologram to a Congolese fisherwoman using a smartphone to track market demand. They also consider virtual identities becoming ever more real and the prospect of virtual states. Published in 2013, it reached the New York Times best-seller list.
Elon Musk praised it as a well-researched look at technology's impact on daily life, and Bill Clinton said it shows a future of rising incomes and growing participation if the right choices are made today.
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This book has 6 recommendations
Walter Isaacson (Author)
This is the most important—and fascinating—book yet written about how the digital age will affect our world. With vivid examples and brilliant analysis, it shows how the internet and other communications technologies will empower individuals and transform the way nations and businesses operate. How will different societies make tradeoffs involving privacy, freedom, control, security, and the relationship between the physical and virtual worlds? This realistic but deeply optimistic book provides the guideposts. It’s both profoundly wise and wondrously readable.
Bill Clinton (Former USA President)
Every day, technological innovations are giving people around the world new opportunities to shape their own destinies. In this fascinating book, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen draw upon their unique experiences to show us a future of rising incomes, growing participation, and a genuine sense of community—if we make the right choices today.
Michael Hayden (Former Director/CIA)
The New Digital Age is must-reading for anyone who wants to truly understand the depths of the digital revolution. Combining the skills of a social scientist and a computer scientist, Schmidt and Cohen blend the technical and the human, the scientific and the political, in ways I rarely saw while in government. They challenge the reader’s imagination on almost every page.
Michael Bloomberg (Founder/Bloomberg)
Few people in the world are doing more to imagine—and build—the new digital age than Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen. With this book, they are looking into their crystal ball and inviting the world to peek in.
Elon Musk (Founder/SpaceX)
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s thoughtful, well-researched work elucidates the staggering impact of technology on our daily lives, as well as what surprising and incredible developments the future may hold. Readers might be left with more questions than answers, but that’s the idea—we are at our best when we ask ‘What’s next?’
Richard Branson (Founder/Virgin Group)
At last, a brilliant guide book for the next century—what the future holds for entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, politicians, and ordinary citizens alike. Schmidt and Cohen offer a dazzling glimpse into how the new digital revolution is changing our lives. This book is the most insightful exploration of our future world I’ve ever read, and once I started reading I was simply unable to put it down.
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