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