The new digital age
Subtitle: reshaping the future of people, nations and business
By: Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Contributors: Cohen, Jared, 1981-
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781848546202; 9781848546219; 9781848546240
Subjects: Forecasting; Technology and civilization; Prognoser; Digitala medier; Teknik och samhälle; Informationsgesellschaft; Zukunft; Computers and civilization; General; Digital media; Digital electronics; Sociala aspekter; Technological innovations; Technology; Information technology
Description: This is the most important - and fascinating - book yet written about how the digital age with affect our world' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve JobsFrom two leading thinkers, the widely anticipated book that describes a new, hugely connected world of the future, full of challenges and benefits which are ours to meet and 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 and Steve Jobs was to Apple, Schmidt (along with Larry Page and Sergey Brin) was to Google - and the Director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, formerly an advisor to both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Never before has the future been so vividly and transparently imagined. From technologies that will change lives (information systems that greatly increase productivity, safety and our quality of life, thought-controlled motion technology that can revolutionise medical procedures, and near-perfect translation technology that allows us to have more diversified interactions) to our most important future considerations (curating our online identity and fighting those who would do harm with it) to the widespread political change that will transform the globe (through transformations in conflict, increasingly active and global citizenries, a new wave of cyber-terrorism and states operating simultaneously in the physical and virtual realms) to the ever present threats to our privacy and security, Schmidt and Cohen outline in great detail and scope all the promise and peril awaiting us in the coming decades. A breakthrough book - pragmatic, inspirational and totally fascinating. Whether a government, a business or an individual, we must understand technology if we want to understand the future.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Our future selves; title: The future of identity, citizenship, and reporting; title: The future of states; title: The future of revolution; title: The future of terrorism; title: The future of conflict, combat, and intervention; title: The future of reconstruction.