The seventh sense
by Joshua Cooper Ramo · first published 2016
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Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense examines the historic force now shaking our world -- and explains how our leaders, our businesses, and each of us can master it. All around us now we are surrounded by events that are difficult to understand. But every day, new figures and forces emerge that seem to have mastered this tumultuous age. Sometimes these are the leaders of the most earthshaking companies of
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If you truly believe this, I would urge you to take a look at the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan and the decades long occupations thereof by the US. I'd also recommend reading The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks by Josh Ramo, which examines this phenomenon in depth.
on “A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s” ↗For a (much longer) exploration of this idea, I recommend reading the book The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks [0] by Joshua Cooper Ramo. [0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0196KYTA6
on “Fighting Like Taliban” ↗…allows decentralized terrorist groups to form and morph at a very high pace and cause high levels of destruction. Surveillance, ideally, can act as a counterforce to that. I highly suggest reading "The Seventh Sense," which looks at the impact that high speed networking has and will have on the world. It frames it as the next era of power, where the last one was industrialization. It's a very good read with balanced…
on “In Bungled Spying Operation, NSA Targeted Pro-Democracy Campaigner” ↗You might be interested in the book The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks. The author builds a thesis around the idea that one can understand the next wave of power as a network problem. He presents the loss of the Iraq…
on “Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project” ↗if you find this article interesting, highly recommend reading The Seventh Sense. does a great job at explaining how networks will redistribute power and change power dynamics
on “The Cyberpunk Sensibility (2016)” ↗If you like this line of thinking, you will appreciate the recent book "The Seventh Sense" which looks at the upcoming world from the perspective of network science. I'm about halfway through and highly recommend it.
on “Pack Hunters of the Silicon Savannas” ↗…IT platforms. Based on the findings of 2 Nobel prize winners. * Never Split the Difference. Don't even think about it - read it. The book is a life coaching chapter that everyone should learn. * The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks. Everything is a network. From wars, to economy, to minorities, to terrorism. Understanding what truly lies behind the concept of "network" is just…
on “Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage?” ↗