The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

Over the coming decade, five billion new people will come online for the first time, and the world they enter will look nothing like the one we know today. In The New Digital Age, Google's Eric Schmidt and policy expert Jared Cohen draw on visits to thirty-five countries, including some of the world's most volatile regions, and conversations with presidents, entrepreneurs, dissidents, and activists to map the extraordinary transformation technology is unleashing across every corner of the globe. This is not a book about gadgets or apps. It is a serious, wide-ranging examination of how the digital revolution is reshaping the fundamental structures of human life: how governments exercise power, how wars are fought, how revolutions start, how diplomacy operates, and how individuals navigate questions of privacy, identity, and security in an age when almost nothing stays hidden for long. Packed with original insights, informed predictions, and sharp warnings about the dangers ahead, The New Digital Age challenges readers to think carefully about the world being built around them, and to ask what choices individuals, businesses, and nations must make now if technology is to become a force for human betterment rather than control.