The Seventh Sense, Joshua Cooper Ramo
The Seventh Sense, Joshua Cooper Ramo
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The Seventh Sense
Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

Author: Joshua Cooper Ramo

Narrator: Joshua Cooper Ramo

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/17/2016

Synopsis

Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why?

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matt on May 23, 2016

I was watching Fareed Zakaria on his show GPS and he had Joshua Ramo on talking about his book the Seventh Sense. I was fascinated and bought it. Here is the snippet that led me to do so: [URL not allowed] The thesis is we live in the age of Networks. His key insight is that t......more

Goodreads review by Bing on May 16, 2016

Zen and the Art of Network Understanding Josh Ramo writes like a poet, thinks like a grand strategist, and lives in the now like a zen master. He integrates history, technology, business and biography in a most original manner. I wish that policy-makers could understand this, and that business leader......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on August 21, 2018

Ramo works for Kissinger’s consulting firm and had spent quite a bit of time in China and learnt under a Chinese philosophical master and so he has good insight regarding both Eastern and Western thinking. This book described our age in which the Power of Networks is going to be all around us. A net......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on June 16, 2016

Wow... this was an interesting perceptual shift for me. I follow technology trends but to percieve power as moving from hierarchies to networks is a very big shift. This book made me grow paths in my brain.......more

Goodreads review by T on November 24, 2017

Some good insights, but this book is 75% too long. The author is so long winded and prone to barely-related tangents that it is a frustrating read. If you must read this book: * Skip the first three chapters completely. They are a disjointed and poorly presented argument for how important the seventh......more

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Praise for The Seventh Sense

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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

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