The New Digital Age

Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business

By: Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected - a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness.

Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley’s great leaders, having taken Google from a small startup to one of the world’s most influential companies. Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas and a former adviser to secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. With their combined knowledge and experiences, the authors are uniquely positioned to take on some of the toughest questions about our future: Who will be more powerful in the future, the citizen or the state? Will technology make terrorism easier or harder to carry out? What is the relationship between privacy and security, and how much will we have to give up to be part of the new digital age?

In this groundbreaking book, Schmidt and Cohen combine observation and insight to outline the promise and peril awaiting us in the coming decades. At once pragmatic and inspirational, this is a forward-thinking account of where our world is headed and what this means for people, states and businesses.

With the confidence and clarity of visionaries, Schmidt and Cohen illustrate just how much we have to look forward to - and beware of - as the greatest information and technology revolution in human history continues to evolve.

Inspiring, provocative and absorbing, The New Digital Age is a brilliant analysis of how our hyper-connected world will soon look, from two of our most prescient and informed public thinkers.

©2013 Google Inc. and Jared Cohen (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

A highly intellectual and engaging conversation

If you like how Eric Schmidt talk about digital transformation and entrepreneurs, you will like this book.

Nothing to Gain. Seems to Glorify Radicals?

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Relevant Information

Would you ever listen to anything by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen again?

NO

Would you be willing to try another one of Roger Wayne’s performances?

NO

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Surprise in that this book is so out of touch with relevant society and humanity beyond social media.

Any additional comments?

This is a book that contains little if any information. It is as if a roomful of Huff Post auto-headline generators were in a virutal circular mirrored room. Kinda like the "do loop" from the days when programming mattered. This is what I would expect if twitter expanded to 141 characters.

Awesome. Brilliant Book.

What made the experience of listening to The New Digital Age the most enjoyable?

Cannot recommend this book enough, really good overview and the most enjoyable part was the fast pace, the vision of the future & the history of other political climates. Really awesome!

Entry level knowledge

What would have made The New Digital Age better?

This book is for people who have no technology knowledge. For those of us already in the know or who seek new info this book won't be enlightening. It's not a bad book, I enjoy that it address a variety of topics but it's all base level info.

Would you ever listen to anything by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen again?

Probably not.

Simplistic and awful

Would you try another book from Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen and/or Roger Wayne?

This was a huge disappointment. I had big expectations when I first began listening to the book and then one "imagine one day in the future" after another really began to grate on me. After listening to the entire book it was readily apparent that the authors engaged in little more than a thinly veiled infomercial for Google while avoid so many of the complexities that come with our lives' data now living both on Google's servers and in the cloud in general. For anyone who has even a basic understand of global technology issues, this book will likely seem underwhelming.