'This is the most important - and fascinating - book yet written about how the digital age with affect our world' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve JobsFrom two leading thinkers, the widely anticipated book that describes a new, hugely connected world of the future, full of challenges and benefits which are ours to meet and harness. The New Digital Age is the product of an unparalleled collaboration: full of the brilliant insights of one of Silicon Valley's great innovators - what Bill Gates was to Microsoft and Steve Jobs was to Apple, Schmidt (along with Larry Page and Sergey Brin) was to Google - and the Director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, formerly an advisor to both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Never before has the future been so vividly and transparently imagined. From technologies that will change lives (information systems that greatly increase productivity, safety and our quality of life, thought-controlled motion technology that can revolutionise medical procedures, and near-perfect translation technology that allows us to have more diversified interactions) to our most important future considerations (curating our online identity and fighting those who would do harm with it) to the widespread political change that will transform the globe (through transformations in conflict, increasingly active and global citizenries, a new wave of cyber-terrorism and states operating simultaneously in the physical and virtual realms) to the ever present threats to our privacy and security, Schmidt and Cohen outline in great detail and scope all the promise and peril awaiting us in the coming decades. A breakthrough book - pragmatic, inspirational and totally fascinating. Whether a government, a business or an individual, we must understand technology if we want to understand the future. 'A brilliant guidebook for the next century ...Schmidt and Cohen offer a dazzling glimpse into how the new digital revolution is changing our lives' Richard Branson

Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is about to be unleashed, driving a resurgence of American manufacturing. A generation of “Makers” using the Web’s innovation model will help drive the next big wave in the global economy, as the new technologies of digital design and rapid prototyping gives everyone the power to invent -- creating “the long tail of things”.

互联网在日常工作和生活中扮演日益重要的角色，互联网将如何重塑社会？本书通过汇集有关互联网文化、经济、政治角色等问题的研究成果，提供了特定社会制度背景下解决这一问题的根本办法。 关于互联网的研究是蓬勃发展的崭新领域，牛津大学互联网研究院(OII)作为创新型的跨学科学院，自成立起就专注于互联网研究。牛津大学互联网研究院关于互联网+社会的系列讲座在一定程度上塑造了互联网+社会。本书内容基于不同学科，但都聚焦于互联网+政治、社会、文化、经济转型的关联。对有兴趣了解互联网+社会，以及影响互联网因素的读者来说，这是一本入门书。 本书开篇论述了互联网和网络的发展简史，提供了多学科、多角度的研究成果。本书由五个部分组成，分别是： 1.互联网+日常生活； 2.线上信息和文化； 3.网络化的政治和政府； 4.网络化的商业、产业和经济； 5.技术和监管的历史与未来。

A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. Albert-László Barabási, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us on an intellectual adventure to prove that social networks, corporations, and living organisms are more similar than previously thought. Grasping a full understanding of network science will someday allow us to design blue-chip businesses, stop the outbreak of deadly diseases, and influence the exchange of ideas and information. Just as James Gleick brought the discovery of chaos theory to the general public, Linked tells the story of the true science of the future.

《过度互联》内容简介：网络使人类的连接更加紧密、方便，但人类社会的过度联接会加快信息的传播速度，使人类社会变得更加脆弱：危机事件不可控，地区性的问题扩大为全国性问题，全国性问题扩大为世界性问题……互联网对近年来发生的世界经济危机、股市起落、隐私泄露等问题都起到了推波助澜的作用。作者令人信服地证明，全球范围的互联给政治和经济机构带来巨大的压力。人类必须防止恶性发展，采取措施以减少负面影响，建立更加稳定、安全的政治、经济、金融系统。

Review James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic “For nearly a decade, Rebecca MacKinnon has been at the center of evolving debates about how the Internet will affect democracy, privacy, individual liberties, and the other values free societies want to defend. Here she makes a persuasive and important case that, as with other technological revolutions through history, the effects of today’s new communications systems, for human liberation or for oppression, will depend not on the technologies themselves but rather on the resolve of citizens to shape the way in which they are used.” Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab “Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world. Consent of the Networked should be required reading for all of those involved in building our networked future as well as those who live in it.” Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University “Consent of the Networked is a must-read for anyone interested in freedom of personal and political expression in the 21st century. It’s accessible, engaging, and periodically hair-raising. It should have the same impact on public awareness of the vital issues surrounding Internet freedom that ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ had with regard to climate change.” Mary Robinson, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and President of Ireland “The Internet poses the most complex challenges and opportunities for human rights to have emerged over the last decade. Rebecca MacKinnon’s book is a clear-eyed guide through that complexity.” Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University, and author of The Future of Power “Cyber power and governance of the internet is one of the great unsolved problems of the 21st century. Rebecca MacKinnon has written a wonderfully lively and illuminating account of the issues we face in this contentious area. It is well worth reading.” Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist “A growing number of people throughout the world are counting on the Internet to move their countries in a more democratic direction. Consent of the Networked describes what’s happening, successes and failures, what’s next, and what needs to be done. It’s the real deal.” Kirkus Reviews “An incisive overview of the global struggle for Internet freedom. . . . In her wide-ranging book, MacKinnon details the many ways in which governments, corporations and others are using the Internet—from empowering people to helping authoritarian dictators survive.” Booklist “A vitally important analysis of Internet manipulation that should be read by anyone relying on the web for work or pleasure.”