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

Eric Schmidt

Knopf

2013

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-10: 1480542288

In a new collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected—a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet.
Eric Schmidt is one of Silicon Valley's great leaders, having taken Google from a small start-up to one of the world's most influential companies. Jared Cohen is the director of Google Ideas and a former adviser to both secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton; he was instrumental in helping shape the way the U.S. government thinks about technology. Schmidt and Cohen have traveled the world—from the hot spots of the Middle East and Africa to the more stable European and Asian nations—meeting with world leaders, entrepreneurs, and activists to see and hear firsthand about the challenges they face. With the authors' combined knowledge and on-the-ground experiences, they 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? How will war, diplomacy, and revolution change when everyone is connected, and how can we tip the balance in a beneficial way? When broken societies are rebuilt, what will they be able to do with technology?

In this book, Schmidt and Cohen combine observations about the physical world with their insights into our digital future to outline in great detail and scope all the promise and peril awaiting us in the coming decades. This is a forward-thinking account of where our world is headed and what this means for people, states, nations, and businesses.

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Não é um livro para os ingênuos

O livro surpreendeu minha expectativa e se revelou muito mais uma análise geopolítica do que tecnológica. Mas é preciso ter atenção em relação ao lugar de fala do Eric Schmidt e do Jared Cohen e dos interesses que o Google tem em escrever um livro como esse. Uma das declarações sobre privacidade que dizem mt a respeito do Schmidt é mais ou menos algo do tipo: 'se vc não faz nada de errado, então não tem nada a esconder'.

No geral, a China é um dos principais alvos de críticas dos autores. E, apesar do título, pouquíssima coisa sobre o futuro das empresas na nova era digital é dito.

Uma análise interessante foi este artigo do Julian Assange que saiu no NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/the-banality-of-googles-dont-be-evil.html?pagewanted=all

A leitura é interessantíssima. Mas, novamente, não é para os ingênuos.