The New Digital Age
by Eric Schmidt . Jared Cohen · first published 2013
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In collaboration, two leading global thinkers from in technology and foreign affairs from Google give readers 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. 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 priva
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…If 200k reports came in on the next Microsoft video posted, someone at YouTube might notice, but the video would never be taken down. You should read (as should everyone else) Eric Schmidt's book 'A New Digital Age'. In it he lies out his view. Basically (and obviously this is my perspective, this is the meaning not the language he uses to sell it), because Google is rich, they are Better. The teeming masses…
on “YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”” ↗The New Digital Age - Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen Why We Do What We Do - Edward Deci The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle
on “Ask HN: What are some books that changed how you think?” ↗Of course it's going to happen. Read The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt. He talks a lot about how all the information Google records about you is permanent, can never be deleted, and any generation of lawmakers can decide to do whatever they want with it.…
on “Google is tracking you even in incognito mode, new disclaimer is up” ↗…for a competitor has been very effective at shutting out all competitors. When traditional means are cut off through bad faith dealing like that, people have to get creative. And after reading 'The New Digital Age' where Schmidt makes his case for Google taking control of all of human culture with no more justification than 'we are rich, therefore better', I more than welcome anyone who stands even a faint chance…
on “Video Startup Can’t Outspend YouTube, So It Created New Currency to Pay Creators” ↗…ground between what Google does and what Wikileaks does. Some of his reactions seem like "that's the missing idea we needed". That may also relate to the book they were working on, now called the "The New Digital Age" and to be released in 3 days apparently ( http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Digital-Age-Reshaping/dp/03079... ) - this interview is great marketing for the book then. The Draw Shop has a nice summary of…
on “Transcript of meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt” ↗…Iraq's green zone. I don't want to veer into conspiracy territory here - I absolutely think DDoS protection is a great project, and we need it no matter who it's being provided for. But reading The New Digital Age was a creepy experience that made me stop equating Google's political standing with that of Apple or other US tech companies. It was very openly a love letter to state power in a way I haven't seen even…
…transfer restrictions force them to improve the areas they're based out of. Open communication makes it harder for them to control public opinion. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, coauthored a book, The New Digital Age, about how in the future there won't be any border restrictions and 'fake news' will be censored away. Here, I have quotes! More effective communication across borders and languages will build trust…
on “Tech bosses are globalists, not libertarians” ↗…will eliminate both in equal number, because people aren't immutable. They move across and among those groups throughout the course of their day, week, month, year, or life. Eric Schmidt's book, 'A New Digital Age' is starkly terrifying. He openly says that Google, because its rich, should use its position to actively mold human culture. We've seen individuals or small cabals take outsized roles in culture many…
on “Facebook is 'silencing' Rohingya Muslim reports of 'ethnic cleansing'” ↗Uncertain about Reddit, but Google/Alphabet morals were pretty well laid out in Eric Schmidt's book "A New Digital Age" where he details how because he is rich, it is his duty to determine the morality of society. It's a very old-school viewpoint that's common amongst 'old money' types that see the general public as…
on “YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including channel and sub bans” ↗I still get a bit tense when I remember reading The New Digital Age. (Written, not coincidentally, by Schmidt and Jared Cohen - ex State Department staffer, current Google visionary.) It is, to an impressive degree, a love letter to the US government. It shows absolute…
on “Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts” ↗…preverbial road, you combine this with Ray Kurzweil’s (Head of Google Artificial Intelligence) “singularity” theory and Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s ideas which are discussed in their book, “The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business” and you have some serious changes to technology, human intelligence and business coming down the pike whether you like it or not - https://lodestarsolutions.com/keeping-up-with-the-surge-of-i...
on “Ask HN: What are the early signs of singularity?” ↗Previously, Julian Assange met with Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen. Schmidt and Cohen had requested the meeting to discuss ideas for their book, "The New Digital Age". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5574589
on “The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’” ↗…planning. The question, then, is which business interests are served by a given Foreign Policy story? Speculation may be made in this case if we ascribe significance to the near simultaneous release of The New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) and Jared Cohen (Council of Foreign Relations member and head of Google Ideas; somewhat spooky in and of itself), which Julian Assange variously described as a startlingly…
on “The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan” ↗Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen paint a pretty scary picture for drones in their book The New Digital Age. They predict a similarity between how terrorists and guerrilla warriors use cheap consumer technology now, such as cell phones in IEDs, and how they might use drones in the future as their prices continue…
on “Consumer drones are coming, and they will change everything” ↗…gesture that he and the other big boys at Google were secretly on our side.. The pretext for their visit was that Schmidt was then researching a new book, a banal tome which has since come out as The New Digital Age. .. Two months after my meeting with Eric Schmidt, WikiLeaks had a legal reason to call Hillary Clinton and to document that we were calling her. It is interesting that if you call the front desk of…
on “Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt talking about Bitcoin” ↗