' This is the most important
- & fascinating
- book yet written about how the digital age will affect our world' Walter Isaacson author of Steve Jobs From two leading thinkers the widely anticipated book that describes a new hugely connected world of the future full of challenges & benefits which are ours to meet & harness. The New Digital Age is the product of an unparalleled collaboration: full of the brilliant insights of one of Silicon Valley's great innovators
- what Bill Gates was to Microsoft & Steve Jobs was to Apple Schmidt (along with Larry Page & Sergey Brin) was to Google
- & the Director of Google Ideas Jared Cohen formerly an advisor to both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice & Hillary Clinton. Never before has the future been so vividly & transparently imagined. From technologies that will change lives (information systems that greatly increase productivity safety & our quality of life thought-controlled motion technology that can revolutionise medical procedures & near-perfect translation technology that allows us to have more diversified interactions) to our most important future considerations (curating our online identity & fighting those who would do harm with it) to the widespread political change that will transform the globe (through transformations in conflict increasingly active & global citizenries a new wave of cyber-terrorism & states operating simultaneously in the physical & virtual realms) to the ever present threats to our privacy & security Schmidt & Cohen outline in great detail & scope all the promise & peril awaiting us in the coming decades. A breakthrough book
- pragmatic inspirational & totally fascinating. Whether a government a business or an individual we must understand technology if we want to understand the future. 'A brilliant guidebook for the next century.. . Schmidt & Cohen offer a dazzling glimpse into how the new digital revolution is changing our lives' Richard Branson