This is the most important - and fascinating - book yet
written about how the digital age will affect our world'' Walter
Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs From 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. ''A
brilliant guidebook for the next century ...Schmidt and Cohen offer
a dazzling glimpse into how the new digital revolution is changing
our lives'' Richard Branson
關於作者:
Eric Schmidt is the Executive Chairman of Google. Prior to
joining Google, he was the chairman and CEO of Novell and has held
senior positions at a number of illustrious technology companies.
He has a degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University
as well as a master''s and Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of California, Berkeley. He is also a member of
President Obama''s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and
is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Jared
Cohen is Director of Google Ideas and an Adjunct Fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he served as a member of
the State Department''s Policy Planning Staff and a close advisor to
Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, where he
focused on the Middle East, South Asia, counter-terrorism, and the
development of ''21st century statecraft.'' He was personally
responsible for intervening to keep Twitter operating during the
2009 Green Revolution in Iran. He has a BA from Stanford University
and an M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University. He
is fluent in Swahili.