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

From two of Google's 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 the youngest member of the State Department. Never before has the future been so vividly and transparently imagined.

From technologies that will change our lives (smartphones that accurately diagnose illness and injury, wristwatches that allow us to silently communicate with others, and customized microfinancing and small business management) 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 revolutions in online journalism, increasingly active citizenries, and nations operating simultaneously in the physical and virtual realms) to the ever present threats to our privacy, Schmidt and Cohen outline in great detail and scope all the promise and peril awaiting us in the coming decades.