The winner will receive The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business.

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. On individual, community and state levels, across every geographical and
socioeconomic spectrum, they reveal the dramatic developments—good and bad—that
will transform both our everyday lives and our understanding of self and
society, as technology advances and our virtual identities become more and more
fundamentally real.

As Schmidt and Cohen’s nuanced vision of the near
future unfolds, an urban professional takes his driverless car to work, attends
meetings via hologram and dispenses housekeeping robots by voice; a Congolese
fisherwoman uses her smart phone to monitor market demand and coordinate sales
(saving on costly refrigeration and preventing overfishing); the potential
arises for “virtual statehood” and “Internet asylum” to liberate political
dissidents and oppressed minorities, but also for tech-savvy autocracies (and
perhaps democracies) to exploit their citizens’ mobile devices for ever more
ubiquitous surveillance. Along the way, we meet a cadre of international
figures—including Julian Assange—who explain their own visions of our
technology-saturated future.

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.

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