The Seventh Sense

Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

De: Joshua Cooper Ramo

Narrado por: Joshua Cooper Ramo

Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why?

The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. The secret to power now is understanding our new age of networks. Not merely the Internet, but also webs of trade, finance, and even DNA. Based on his years of advising generals, CEOs, and politicians, Ramo takes us into the opaque heart of our world's rapidly connected systems and teaches us what the losers are not yet seeing -- and what the victors of this age already know.

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Praise for The Seventh Sense

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER

Winner of the getAbstract 17th International Book Award

"A fascinating guide to the way the world is changing."—Malcolm Gladwell, author of David and Goliath

"Joshua Cooper Ramo has a unique intelligence and a unique voice, which illuminate this fascinating book. The central new reality of the world we live in today is connectivity. People, computers, other machines, almost everything is getting linked and these new networks are spewing oceans of information. How should we navigate this brave new world? Ramo writes with ease and authority about the technology, history , and foreign policy of this power shift, giving us an essential guide for the future."—Fareed Zakaria, author of In Defense of a Liberal Education

"This book paints an accurate and timely picture of the world we live in and how it is changing."—Mareo McCracken, Inc.

"In this hyper networked world remade fresh every day, with new perils and new opportunities, there is one book to be sure to read: Joshua Ramo's new book, a masterpiece, The Seventh Sense. To understand the tsunami of the networked age, you need history, biography, tech, philosophy, politics--and you want a book that has a depth beyond whatever else you could be streaming, podcasting, or wiki-ing. This is that book."—Reid Hoffman, Chairman/Founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock

"Joshua Cooper Ramo has written a book that combines historic sweep and incisive detail. A great book, and a useful one. The Seventh Sense is a concept every businessman, diplomat, or student should aspire to master -- a powerful idea, backed by stories and figures that will be impossible to forget."—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators

"If this book were read and understood by our next president, America would be a stronger country and the president would have an agenda for global leadership. Ramo's fascinating work serves a critical public purpose."—Bill Bradley

"Provocative reading... [Ramo] offers plenty of interesting scenarios for such things as global power shifts, AI-enabled weapons systems, and the like.... For policy wonks with an eye toward the middle term, Ramo provides a good effort to make sense of it all."—Kirkus Reviews

"The Seventh Sense ultimately isn't just about witnessing the power of human connections, but also harnessing that power to change the world. Highly recommended."—Midwest Book Review

Are you the most ambitious person you know?

This book was written for you. You likely already have the Seventh Sense; the job of this book is to give those with this new "instinct" a common language to recognise and communicate with each other. If you don't have the 7th sense already, this book may enrage you, terrify you, or challenge you like never before. But if you're Bruce Wayne or Neo, this book is your bat trial, your red pill. It's a crash course on the nature of our age, and a call to master your inner game. But the outcome of this age? The future of freedom, order, war and peace? That's on you.

Amazing!

Incredible insight and wonder. Sad that it's over, as it was such a fascinating ride!

Eminently Sensible and Prophetic

This should be required reading for policy makers, business school professors, and any one interested in how networks will increasing shape our thinking, feeling, and acting.

seemingly more than one book

Very thought provoking. I'm not sure I fully understood the way the author connects the technical, philosophical, and historical. It seems to me that this work could easily be one science, public policy, and business oriented book and another volume oriented towards foreign policy and national defense.

Repetition is a great teacher

While many have complained about the repeated themes in this book, I appreciate how the author came at the issue from multiple angles and with events from history.

Good not great

Its mostly a cursory view of networks on our society for a 20-something technologist like myself. It might be more insightful for an older generation listener who knew a life before the age of networks. Still worth a listen as author does a good job of articulating the reasons behind the vast complexity of the world we now live in.

Irritating narration, vague writing

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Can be very thought provoking at times

If you’ve listened to books by Joshua Cooper Ramo before, how does this one compare?

I've seen him speak in person and he's much better in an hour long format.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Joshua Cooper Ramo?

Normally, I like when an author reads their own work. Perhaps this was Ramo's first time? He.speaks.as.if.there.is.a.period.between.every.word and it is maddening. Like having a debate with Captain Kirk. His. narration. drove. me. nuts.

Could you see The Seventh Sense being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

No

Any additional comments?

Can be exceptionally thought provoking at times, but thoughts are only vaguely connected and can be lost in the long winded stories.

Unimaginably powerful

Strongly recommended for any one who lives in this age and wants to understand if not master it

The right book at the perfect time

I got to know about this book from the top books the top global leaders are reading this year and I decided to also read it and oh goodness! It is the right book at the right time. I makes us understand why sometimes our plans and solutions to problems don't work and why everyone having more gun will not necessarily make us safer but make us rather unsafe.

The power of networks and we are losing the battle against terror groups and why drones and bombings will not stop the terror and what likely solutions we should be considering.

This is a book I will recommend for Presidents or anyone interested in taking up politics.

I can't say enough but I am going to read it over again. The 9hrs came by fast and j believe I may have missed some portions although I doubt.

The performance was even better (at 1.5x for me).

history as lesson

author does a remarkable job wielding historical anecdotes to bolster his arguments about the present and future.