Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen's new book: http://newdigitalage.com/
I listened to the "Book Talk" at the Aspen Institute with the authors: Several things struck me: 1. The Internet makes it easier to start a revolution (or any significant change) but maybe harder to finish one. Is this something we are seeing amongst the Arab Spring circumstances? 2. Their visit to North Korea provided some interesting insights I had not heard before. 3. The ethic (aesthetic?) of "you have zero privacy, get over it" seems to arise in a softer form from Schmidt (following McNealy?) and still leaves me queasy. 4. Information may be agnostic but the internet is a hotbed of emotion and "crank" psuedoscience. 5. The discussion of the move from *trusted* sources to *nearly trusted* sources was interesting. 6. There is a (natural?) bias toward "check it for yourself" (with Google Search!). 7. This book (from the interview/discussion) would seem to be an interesting complement/bookend to Kotler's "Abundance" - Steve
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