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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Politics & government

THE SEVENTH SENSE

Joshua Cooper Ramo

Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

The Digital Age we live in is as transformative as the Industrial Revolution and Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to survive.

If you find yourself longing for a disconnected world where information is not always at your fingertips, you may eventually be as useful as the carriage maker post-Henry Ford. It's practically impossible to know where the marriage of imagination and technology will take us (sorry Betamax and Kodak), and the only certainty is that in the networked world we will only become more intertwined. Is it possible to not become hopelessly tangled?

Joshua Cooper Ramo, a policy expert who has advised the most powerful nations and corporations, says yes--if you are ready to ride the disruption. Drawing on examples from business, science, and politics, Ramo illuminates our transformative world. Start by imagining a near future when America's greatest power is not its military or its economy, but its control of the Internet.

Joshua Cooper Ramo is the author of the bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable and Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates. A Mandarin speaker who has been Beijing-based since 2002, Ramo has served as China advisor on more than $50 billion of transactions. He is a director of the Starbucks and FedEx corporations.

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Book Published 2016-05-17 by Little Brown
Book Published 2016-05-17 by Little Brown

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Joshua Cooper Ramo has written a book that combines historic sweep and incisive detail. A great book, and a useful one. The Seventh Senseis a concept every businessman, diplomat, or student should aspire to master -- a powerful idea, backed by stories and figures that will be impossible to forget.

In this hyper networked world remade fresh every day, with new perils and new opportunities, there is one book to be sure to read: Joshua Ramo's new book, a masterpiece, The Seventh Sense. To understand the tsunami of the networked age, you need history, biography, tech, philosophy, politics—and you want a book that has a depth beyond whatever else you could be streaming, podcasting, or wiki-ing. This is that book.

Joshua Cooper Ramo has a unique intelligence and a unique voice, which illuminate this fascinating book. The central new reality of the world we live in today is connectivity. People, computers, other machines, almost everything is getting linked and these new networks are spewing oceans of information. How should we navigate this brave new world? Ramo writes with ease and authority about the technology, history , and foreign policy of this power shift, giving us an essential guide for the future.