The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

By Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen

Book Overview

In the next decade, five billion new people will come online, posing for our world a host of new opportunities--and dangers. Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen traveled to thirty-five countries, including some of the world's most volatile regions and met with political leaders, entrepreneurs, and activists to learn firsthand about the challenges they face. Packed with fascinating ideas, informed predictions, and prescient warnings, The New Digital Age tackles some of the toughest questions about our future: how will technology change the way we approach issues like privacy and security, war and intervention, diplomacy, revolution and terrorism. And how can we best use new technologies to improve our lives? More than a book about gadgets and data, this is a prescriptive glimpse of how technology is reshaping our world and the lives of the people who live in it. With a new afterword.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030794705X
• ISBN13: 9780307947055
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Schmidt and Cohen are together again for the first time.

This book is basically about human-to-human interaction with a sprinkle of technology to spice it up. The book covers technologies that exist and are on the near horizon, such as self-driving cars that we all saw in “The Phantom Car” (1956 TV episode), one of the 78 Episodes of “Science Fiction Theatre” of the 1950s. Our cell phone, militantly intent on regulating his daily life, was depicted as a TV in “The Twonky” (1953). The author throws in some contemporary names and crises to spice up the possible future. I never trust books without footnotes and bibliographies. You never know what is being made up or how it is extrapolated. This book has a fine, rich notes section. This book is a worthwhile read and brings up some unique ideas on how we can use technology for good or evil in our interactions.