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

Състояние: Отлично
Издателство: John Murray Publishers
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 200
Дебелина (мм): 22
Корици: Меки

This is the most important - and fascinating - book yet written about how the digital age will affect our world’
WALTER ISAACSON, Author of Steve fobs

'Thoughtful, well-researched’
ELON MUSK

‘Concise and persuasive'
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

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From two leading thinkers, the widely anticipated hook that describes a new, hugely connected world of the future, full of challenges and benefits which are ours to meet and harness. Whether a government, a business or an individual, we must understand technology if we want to understand the future.

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Fascinating’
BILL CLINTON

'Wonderfully stimulating and important’
MOHAMED EL-ERIAN

Thought-provoking’
HENRY A. KISSINGER

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About the Authors

Eric Schmidt is Executive Chairman of Google. Prior to joining Google, he was the Chairman and CEO of Novell and has held senior positions at a number of illustrious technology companies. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University as well as a Masters and PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a member of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jared Cohen is Director of Google Ideas and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously he served as a member of the State Departments Policy Planning Staff where he focused on the Middle East, counterterrorism and the development of‘21st-century statecraft’. He serves on the Director’s Advisory Board at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). He has a BA from Stanford University and an MPhil in international relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He is fluent in Swahili.

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‘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 trade-offs 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’
Walter Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of Steve Jobs

‘At last, a brilliant guidebook 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’
Richard Branson, Founder and Chairman, Virgin Group

‘This is a book that defines both the nature of the new world which the internet is creating, and its challenges. It describes a technological revolution in the making. How we navigate it is a challenge for countries, communities and citizens. There are no two people better equipped to explain what it means than Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Tony Blair, Prime Minister, 1997-2007

‘Starting with a simple, powerful and terrifying observation - that the internet is among the few things humans have built that they don’t truly understand’’ - this fascinating book takes you on a wonderfully stimulating and important journey. It will make you rethink your concepts of the digital age, the way the world works, what lies ahead and what all this means for you, your family and your community.
You don’t need to know much about technology to benefit from this incredibly insightful book. Using their repeatedly tested talents and their highly successful experiences, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen brilliantly detail for us how the digital age is rapidly altering the balance of power between citizens and governments, between the physical and the virtual worlds, and between good and bad.
Whether we like it or not, technology is fundamentally changing the manner in which we all interact and depend on each other - and in an accelerating manner whose scale and scope remain obscure for too many of us. Schmidt and Cohen expose you to the enormous productivity potential of this transformational period in history, as well as the scary risks of harmful balkanization and threatening individual empowerment. This brilliant book is a must read for all those seeking to understand and navigate well a fundamental structural shift that will play a critical role in determining the wellbeing of current and future generations’
Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of Pimco

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 Our Future Selves 13
CHAPTER 2 The Future of Identity, Citizenship and Reporting
CHAPTER 3 The Future of States 82
CHAPTER 4 The Future of Revolution 121
CHAPTER 5 The Future of Terrorism 151
CHAPTER 6 The Future of Conflict, Combat and Intervention
CHAPTER 7 The Future of Reconstruction 217

Conclusion 253
Afterword for the Paperback Edition 259
Acknowledgments 283
Notes 287
Index 341