This week the soon to be released book “The New Digital Age” authored by Google’s Eric Schmidt has been reviewed and spilled early by the Wall Street Journal, this note including words from the author regarding the future digital dominance of China across out planet. This is not the first time Schmidt has predicted political waves coming crashing in before they’ve gone ahead and happened – an essay by Schmidt and colleague Jared Cohen in 2010 called “The Digital Disruption” which correctly predicted Arab Spring. Could this be the next great digital high tide coming towards us?
Speaking back in the essay from 2010, Schmidt and Cohen let it be known that soon “governments will be caught off-guard when large numbers of their citizens, armed with virtually nothing but cell phones, take part in mini-rebellions that challenge their authority.” This prediction essentially became a hard and fast real-world situation when events such as the Free Iran movement spread and was maintained with Twitter as a large proponent. Everyone knew what the green flags meant because Twitter let them know it.
In the new book authored by Schmidt, “The New Digital Age” is a section in which the next generation will see the information age take hold fully of political uprisings and movements between countries. Schmidt also make clear that he believes China will be a “dangerous and menacing superpower”, as the WSJ says. This book is also go-authored by Cohen as the essay from 2010 was, they here saying that “the disparity between American and Chinese firms and their tactics” will be putting the USA at a real disadvantage when it comes to future business and politics.
Cohen and Schmidt ass that the United States will be at a disadvantage against China because the country is not willing to “take the same page of digital corporate espionage”, for two reasons: moral values and laws. The “American sense of fair play” will be the reason China gains an upper hand because in the USA “the laws are much stricter (and better enforced)”. Schmidt’s book will be released in full with details far more in-depth than what we’ve got available today – in April is when the public will be able to see it.
In addition to being able to dominate the USA in several digitally-influenced ways in the future, Schmidt and Cohen note that China will be seeing “some kind of revolution in the coming decades”. What that revolution will be is anyone’s guess.
Eric Schmidt predicts China’s hacker war is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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