First published 2018
Joshua Cooper Ramo examines the interconnected systems that drive today's most puzzling events. Terror waves, refugee crises, broken economies, shocking elections, new fortunes, and medical breakthroughs all stem from the same source. Networks now control everything, but most people cannot see them. Ramo spent years counseling military leaders, corporate executives, and government officials. He discovered that winners understand these invisible webs while losers remain blind to them. The networks include the Internet, but extend far beyond it into trade routes, financial systems, and biological structures like DNA. Ramo guides readers through these opaque, rapidly connecting systems. He shows how technological explosions create political tremors across the globe. The book teaches readers to recognize what successful figures already know about our networked age.
Genres: business, political-science, non-fiction, technology, 21st-century, current-affairs
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: expert-protagonist, hidden-systems
Period: 21st-Century
353 pages · Paperback · Little, Brown Paperbacks