The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

I like to think it has to be of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace youtube watch v 4_ccAfThis is a book about the future Naturally, some parts will be proven right and some will be wrong That much I can guarantee.I cannot say this is a book about predictions, only assertions or future targets The [...]

Nothing has changed our lives than the digital revolution.And while countless books have been written on the subject, none has created such buzz as the recently released The New Digital Age Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Justly so this is for your must read list.Schmidt is the chairman of Google and its former CEO He is credited with building one of the most important companies in history Cohen is director of Google Ideas and a former advise [...]

Slightly interesting and entertainment, but this felt like a big missed opportunity on the authors part Maybe they had an algorithm write it This was a common recipe repeated over and over applied 80% to geopolitics and 15% lip service to business and 5% other The recipe start with a strong serving of techno utopia, spin, counter balance with a strong dash of pro con analysis, repeat an idea or two, move on For a digital age there was very minimal education a mention of Kahn Academy, some lip se [...]

I can live with top ten lists and online puffery touting the grandiosity of your regional cuisine they re obvious click bait, simple to avoid In the decades after the Rovian base revving false dichotomy With us or against us it is sometimes difficult to tell the difference between legitimate discord with popular sentiment and opportunistic nose tweaking in a Controversial Opinion Piece No, the real scourge of the internet is the insidious self discovery examination essay Cobbled together from bi [...]

Unbearable Contains thousands of sentences that begin with in the future Except they re talking about technology and policies that are already here There are a few interesting facts, but they re drowned out by the monotony of their context Less privacy, smart phones, authority We believe, however, that unregulated whistleblowing is a dangerous model, especially given that there is always going to be someone with bad judgment who releases information that will get people killed This is why gove [...]

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I had an initial assumption that a book about the future of digital technology by a former CEO of Google, that much of what would be discussed was how technology would improve the construct of the United States economy, specific innovations of web apps, mobile technologies, and a look inside of Google s culture and the vision of the company All three of these topics were wildly ignored and it would seem the co author Jared Cohen actually had much of the focus on foreign impact of technology, sp [...]

This is a tricky book to categorize and review, because it s not clear what The New Digital Age is supposed to be I think I figured it out in the end, but that doesn t help too much.The book seems to be a futures work, exploring what s coming next with technology But it s also written by two people whose identities call that into question Jared Cohen, the head of Google s Ideas lab now Jigsaw , and Eric Schmidt, the head of Google and now Alphabet Cohen did some work in foreign policy circles, w [...]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb famously called prediction a kind of charlatanism Prediction, in his opinion, should be a liberal art something creative, entertaining, thought provoking, but always to be taken with a grain of salt This is an opinion I share And thus, it s a great delight that The Digital Age, written by Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, and Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas, is a creative and exploratory journey into the geopolitics of the digital era and the digitalization of geopolitics [...]

I had high expectations for this book given the two authors A co founder of Google and a rising star of the foreign policy pundit circuit, what s not to like actually there is quite a bit not to like and I was very disappointed by the book It was not a complete disaster, but had wandered into that neighborhood by the concluding chapter.The book starts with the premise that the Internet and related digital technologies are engines of great change in the world that will influence much of how we li [...]

Okay, here s what s going on here This book got a new copyright in 2014 and a new title The New Digital Age Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives And a new introduction, as well This new intro comes up when you sample it on GoodReads It s the intro that s blowing my mind and transformation is one huge part of it Yeah, the good and the bad, the anarchy and the new power of individuals to be heard Like I m finding people like me all over the world Yunno Into blues music, databases, writi [...]

These two speak as the establishment, and some of their proposals will scare proponents of the open Web Many of their other proposals are basically blue sky solutioneering I think this book will appeal to those already in power, which is disappointing because I find their view is far to statist and establishment to reflect the true disruptive power and decentralized nature that Web connectivity gives us But policy writers will point to this book as a mandate from the tech elite which makes it an [...]

The opening chapter presents an exciting image of the future, though I had some serious questions about it like, where is all that electricity going to come from Much of the book is frightening, as it imagine future impacts on war, terrorism, identity, etc The final chapter is very encouraging, as it imagines the changes that digital technologies will bring to reconstruction after a disaster They are also very optimistic about the future.I have blogged in detail about the book, with a separate p [...]

Buku tulisan tokoh utama Google, Eric Shmidt dibantu oleh Jared Cohern bekas penasihat Condolezza Rice da Hilary Clinton Buku yang menceritakan tentang dunia digital dan masa depan dunia dan manusia Antara kebebasan individu dan kekuatan negara akan ditentukan melalui kekuatan dunia digital Dunia digital bagaikan dunia demokrasi yang sebenar di mana setiap individu punya suara Bagaimana dunia akan menghadapi aktiviti keganasan dalam keadaan semua perkara dihubungkan melalui dunia digital.

A book where the good guys are white men, the US government and corporations, and the bad guys are middle easterners and other non white folk The digital prediction stuff is sometimes interesting, most of the time just a reflection of what is already happening around the world.

I am one of those distracted readers who have anything from two to five books lined up on the reading table at the same time, jumping from book to book depending on the mood and brain juice left for the day I have to confess I have been struggling to get through this book for a while now The New Digital Age has been languishing on my reading table for than 6 months, but I m proud to report that I ve finally finished it last weekend.I have to say, it was a matter of hitting my stride with this b [...]

Schmidt, Eric, and Jared Cohen, The New Digital Age Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business London John Murray, 2013 Het knappe van dit boek is dat de auteurs, beiden verbonden aan Google, de mondiale betekenis van de invoering van digitale technologie op een zeer breed terrein weten te analyseren op grond van een diepgaand inzicht in zowel technologische als maatschappelijke aspecten en effecten van digitalisering Zij slagen er in ver uit te stijgen boven het bedrijfsperspectief va [...]

For anyone who use Google and understand the role of this great firm in progress the book co authored by legendary Google CEO seem to be must read the same was for me.This book despite promising title gives very limited practical information about future of the business and life in the new digital age Key takeaways from this book would be 1 The future will undergo huge changes driven by technology and internet2 The politics will be altered physical and cyber wars affairs should be conducted in p [...]

The New Digital Age Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen is an interesting read about technology and how it shapes our future The book starts off by stressing the importance of connectivity and how it will level the playing field for everyone People will benefit greatly from being in the virtual world as opposed to the physical one They will find that being connected virtually makes us feel equal with access to the same basic platforms, informatio [...]

I didn t learn anything new from this book by two influential Silicon Valley icons that currently work for Google While the authors present both the good and dark sides of the internet, their prose is overwhelmingly optimistic which bothered me from the first chapter They present a hypothetical history of how the internet is and will impact our lives Julian Assange, who the authors made clear they do not admire, wrote a scathing review in the NYTimes on The New Digital Age While I do not agree w [...]

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This book read like a one big essay on technology and public policy Both very important topics and something that will interest any concerned hacker The treatment of the subject was explorative and breadth wise and very less advise on suggested solutions, because coming up with solutions to the problems mentioned is a hard one Startups specifically do not venture into areas to solve problems which are riddled with public regulations because they are so muddled with unknown unknowns that it is ve [...]

One of the best non fiction books I read this year The balance between now and tomorrow is very well kept Also how connectivity will affect governments and states and what the future of revolutions were very informative for me Having read it as the Taksim Gezi protests were going on the chapter future of conflict, combat, intervention and future of revolutions especially peaked my interest.An easy read I recommend to everyone who wonders what the future will look like.

On page 233 and still have not learnt anything new or found new insights I knew I should not have bought a digital book a year after release when even a day is a long time with all the content being created I think this book would be great for people completely unfamiliar with the current digital age we re in.

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As Eric Schmidt said on Colbert, this book is 260 pages, small print and no pictures He could have added no personality to that description.

Don t let Cohen and Schmidt s introduction, reminiscent of Jetsonian fantasies with near future tech like self driving or flying cars, touchscreens infused into everything, and general intelligence AI, fool you This book firmly assesses how the realities of rapid technology innovation and democratization will affect individuals and how their respective governments will respond The authors were in particular positions within Google which allowed them to see growth up until the time of writing and [...]

The first 6 chapters seemed to all be the same, focusing on cyber terrorism and cyber politics and cyber nations Only the last chapter touches on something slightly different, but even then, this book wasn t entirely what I was expecting It s much less about the future of society and consumerism and how individuals will act in the future with advanced technology There s nothing about workforce employment and how society will coexist with robots and AI and automation if there was a section it was [...]

Since it s written by the technologists, it has to be complex to understand Still I would say that they have done a great job of writing influence of digital technology on different aspects like people, states, revolution, terrorism, war and reconstruction The good takeaway for me was that the book gives many new and good ideas for current and future business, as the technologies are moving so fast that some of the things written are in application now Another encouraging thing I learnt that aut [...]

A full executive summary of this book is available here newbooksinbrief 2013 05 23Many of us living in the developed world have come to rely very heavily on digital technology including the internet and our mobile smart devices indeed, for many of us, our relationship with our various screens is nothing short of addiction And we are not the only ones who are plugging in We are also increasingly hooking up our various man made systems such as our infrastructural systems and financial systems to t [...]