The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B015ERLVBA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 382 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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New billion-dollar fortunes. But every day, new figures and forces emerge that seem to have mastered this tumultuous age. The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of today's successful figures see and feel--forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. Refugee waves. What if we could know the secret of those who can make sense of this age? What if we could apply it to the questions that worry us most?In this groundbreaking new book, Joshua Cooper Ramo, author of the international bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable, introduces a powerful way of seeing the world. Miracle medical advances. It will also give you the power to change it.. What if they were all connected? What if you coul
Table-pounding frustration Ashutosh S. Jogalekar I regret to say that I honestly cannot remember the last time I felt like pounding the table with frustration so much while reading a book. Overall I found Ramo's volume highly repetitive and bombastic, long on rhetoric, name-dropping and references and short on logic and argument. Basically Ramo's entire thesis can be summed up in two sentences: "Networks are important" and "An object's connections change its nature". Both of these points are rather obvious if you think about them. And both of them are enumerated on. A great path illuminator At once a great interpreter of the past to illuminate the future while at the same time a cipher for events happening around us, decrypting what they mean.Not the last word on what the fast changes around us mean and what they lead to but definitely a useful addition to the stock of literature helping us understand the powerful forces and movements shaping our world.. "Essential" according to Christopher M. Schroeder. The predominant thought I had in reading this book in two sittings, living in Washigton, DC, is how little anyone in this town understands how the world is changing around them. From the Executive Branch to Congress to their staffs and the thinktank/lobbyists and journalists that are this city, there is universal focus on the echo chamber of the here and now -- a look at the future presuming the next decade can (or should be) like the last. I cannot tell you what Syria will look like in a year, of what a softening Ch
. He is co-chief executive officer and vice chairman of Kissinger Associates and a member of the board of directors of FedEx and Starbucks. His first book, No Visible Horizon, chronicled his experiences as a competitive aerobatic pilot. Joshua Cooper Ramo is the author of the international bestseller The Age of the Unthi
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. This is that book."Reid Hoffman, Chairman/Founder of LinkedIn and Partner at Greylock"The Seventh Sense ultimately isn't just about witnessing the power of human connections, but also harnessing that power to change the world. People, computers, other machines, almost everything is getting linked and these new networks are spewing oceans of information. For policy wonks with an eye toward the middle term, Ramo provides a good effort to make sense of it all."Kirkus Reviews"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 so