The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives.

SCHMIDT, Eric and Jared Cohen.

Item Number: 100869

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

First edition of this work by two global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Eric Schmidt on a bookplate attached to the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine jacket. Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund.

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.