Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen are two of the leading thinkers of our time. Schmidt has taken Google from a small start-up business to one of the world’s most influential companies. Cohen is the Director of Google Ideas and a former advisor to both secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. THE NEW DIGITAL AGE is a unique and unparalleled collaboration between these two great minds. In THE NEW DIGITAL AGE Schmidt and Cohen offer us their view on the future of the world where everyone is connected: a world full of challenges and benefits which are ours to meet and harness. Questions tackled in this forward-looking book include: • What will be the most transformative technologies that will change our lives - from information systems that increase productivity, safety and quality of life to technology that will revolutionise medicine and healthcare? • 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? • How will states function in a world where they have to operate in both the physical and virtual worlds? • How will conflict and wars be transformed by the proliferation of drones and the rapid expansion of cyberspace? • What will terrorism look like in the future and are we going to be any safer? • Who will be more powerful in the future, the citizen or the state and where will we see the next wave of revolutions? • When societies are destroyed by war or disaster, how can technology help them rebuild? Whether government, business or individual, we must understand technology and the impact it will have it we want to understand the future and be prepared of the changes ahead.