The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
By Joshua Cooper Ramo
Read by Joshua Cooper Ramo
Unabridged
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ISBN: 9781478939573
| Runtime: | 9.90 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Business & Economics |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A Washington Post Bestseller
An Amazon Best Book of the Month for May 2016
The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. The secret to power now is understanding our new age of networks. Not merely the Internet, but also webs of trade, finance, and even DNA. Based on his years of advising generals, CEOs, and politicians, Ramo takes us into the opaque heart of our world's rapidly connected systems and teaches us what the losers are not yet seeing -- and what the victors of this age already know.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Combines historic sweep and incisive detail…A powerful idea, backed by stories and figures that will be impossible to forget.” —Walter Isaacson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author
“The next president needs to read The Seventh Sense…Ramo’s latest book is a fascinating guide to the way the world is changing.” —Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author
“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.” —Fareed Zakaria, New York Times bestselling author
"The Seventh Sense ultimately isn’t just about witnessing the power of human connections, but also harnessing that power to change the world. Highly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review
“Ramo is sometimes vague but sometimes profound in a postmodern way that’s not the usual stuff of Washington think tanks…It all makes for provocative reading.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The author’s easy authority about these transformative issues is as evident in his performance as it is in his prescient insights regarding how networks and machine intelligence will upend the world. The low-key seriousness in his reading works well with his arresting message…[and] he is utterly convincing.” —AudioFile
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WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER —
Winner of the getAbstract 17th International Book Award —
A fascinating guide to the way the world is changing. —Malcolm Gladwell, author of David and Goliath
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. —Fareed Zakaria, author of In Defense of a Liberal Education
This book paints an accurate and timely picture of the world we live in and how it is changing. —Mareo McCracken, Inc.
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. —Reid Hoffman, Chairman/Founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock
Joshua Cooper Ramo has written a book that combines historic sweep and incisive detail. A great book, and a useful one. The Seventh Sense is 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. —Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators
If this book were read and understood by our next president, America would be a stronger country and the president would have an agenda for global leadership. Ramo's fascinating work serves a critical public purpose. —Bill Bradley
Provocative reading... [Ramo] offers plenty of interesting scenarios for such things as global power shifts, AI-enabled weapons systems, and the like.... For policy wonks with an eye toward the middle term, Ramo provides a good effort to make sense of it all. —Kirkus Reviews
The Seventh Sense ultimately isn't just about witnessing the power of human connections, but also harnessing that power to change the world. Highly recommended. —Midwest Book Review
This book is the best yet on reviewing the ever more tightly woven, connected, pervasive networks - accelerating due to their interactivity - that now dominate our globalized human societies.... Ramo surveys this new world of interconnected networks in penetrating detail with deep knowledge of current global geopolitics and human history. —Hazel Henderson, Seeking Alpha
Author
Author Bio: Joshua Cooper Ramo
Joshua Cooper Ramo is managing director and a partner at Kissinger Associates, one of the world’s leading strategic advisory firms. Prior to joining Kissinger Associates, he was assistant managing editor of Time and worked in the advisory and banking business in China. Trained as an economist, he holds degrees from the University of Chicago and New York University.
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| Available Formats : | Library CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Business & Economics |
| Runtime: | 9.90 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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