In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global
thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their
widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a
world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges
and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.
Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great leaders,
having taken Google from a small startup to one of the
world’s most influential companies. Jared Cohen is the
director of Google Ideas and a former adviser to secretaries
of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. With their
combined knowledge and experiences, the authors are uniquely
positioned to take on some of the toughest questions about
our future: Who will be more powerful in the future, the
citizen or the state? Will technology make terrorism easier
or harder to carry out? What is the relationship between
privacy and security, and how much will we have to give up
to be part of the new digital age?
In this
groundbreaking book, Schmidt and Cohen combine observation
and insight to outline the promise and peril awaiting us in
the coming decades. At once pragmatic and inspirational,
this is a forward-thinking account of where our world is
headed and what this means for people, states and
businesses.
With the confidence and clarity of
visionaries, Schmidt and Cohen illustrate just how much we
have to look forward to—and beware of—as the greatest
information and technology revolution in human history
continues to evolve. On individual, community and state
levels, across every geographical and socioeconomic
spectrum, they reveal the dramatic developments—good and
bad—that will transform both our everyday lives and our
understanding of self and society, as technology advances
and our virtual identities become more and more
fundamentally real.
As Schmidt and Cohen’s nuanced
vision of the near future unfolds, an urban professional
takes his driverless car to work, attends meetings via
hologram and dispenses housekeeping robots by voice; a
Congolese fisherwoman uses her smart phone to monitor market
demand and coordinate sales (saving on costly refrigeration
and preventing overfishing); the potential arises for
“virtual statehood” and “Internet asylum” to liberate
political dissidents and oppressed minorities, but also for
tech-savvy autocracies (and perhaps democracies) to exploit
their citizens’ mobile devices for ever more ubiquitous
surveillance. Along the way, we meet a cadre of
international figures—including Julian Assange—who explain
their own visions of our technology-saturated
future.
Inspiring, provocative and absorbing, The
New Digital Age is a brilliant analysis of how our
hyper-connected world will soon look, from two of our most
prescient and informed public thinkers.
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