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The New Digital Age
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The New Digital Age

Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

Jared Cohen and Eric Schmidt
Vintage Books, 2013

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Editorial Rating

8

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Recommendation

This intelligent, articulate and far-reaching discussion addresses nearly everything in the digital world, from teen indiscretion to cyberwarfare. Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen of Google, two people who really do know how the digital revolution manifests around the world, offer many striking examples. These insiders explain digital developments, positive and negative, that most people don’t consider. In fact, several of the phenomena Schmidt and Cohen describe – such as terrorist cyberattacks and cellphone videos of crimes – are already the stuff of today’s headlines, making this required catch-up reading. getAbstract recommends this essential, accessible narrative to futurists, investors, start-ups and anyone interested in Google, the future of digital, cyberculture and globalization.

Take-Aways

  • The Internet fuels one of the largest changes in history, but few people understand it.
  • Universal connectivity will change who you are, how you work and how you live. The result will be a “better quality of life.”
  • Universal connectivity gives you unprecedented access to data and tools.

About the Authors

Eric Schmidt is executive chairman of Google and a trustee of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. Jared Cohen is founder and director of Google Ideas. He wrote Children of Jihad and One Hundred Days of Silence.

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