The Seventh Sense

Joshua Cooper Ramo argues that one force links the upheavals of recent years: terror attacks, waves of refugees, a global economy that resists repair, surprising election results, sudden fortunes and medical advances. That force is the rise of networks, which he defines broadly to take in trade, finance and DNA as well as the internet. The people who thrive in this age, from leaders of giant companies, investors and generals to terrorists and rebels, share what he calls a seventh sense for how connected systems behave. Ramo, author of The Age of the Unthinkable, draws on years spent advising generals, chief executives and politicians.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman endorsed it, arguing that grasping the networked age takes history, biography, technology, philosophy and politics together, and that Ramo's book supplies that depth.