The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt

The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt

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.

After finishing Children of Jihad, Jared Cohen joined the US Department of State. He has performed considerable research in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. He is a Stanford graduate (2004), Oxford graduate (2006), and Rhodes scholar. In addition to Afghanistan, he has visited 21 African countries. He's worked in both the public and commercial sectors and has been on ABC Radio and the Discovery Channel. He currently resides in Washington, DC.