Review Praise for The Seventh SenseNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERWinner 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 Read more About the Author Joshua Cooper Ramo is the author of the international bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable. 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. Read more
B**E
Bought this book based on Fred Wilson's recommendation in his ...
Bought this book based on Fred Wilson's recommendation in his blog AVC. The first chapter was interesting and had the promise of discussing more insightful ideas later on in the book, but from there on it had little substance, basically long on rhetoric and short on logic. The author presented himself as knowing so much about everything, but in the end I walked away with very little new knowledge and insights.
S**N
Don't buy this book.
Do not buy this book. I'll be generous and say it could have been condensed into 30 pages but really, as some on here said, it could have been 5 pages. I just can't figure out why it got any good reviews. He makes a few good points which are actually obvious if you think about it. Mostly he just pontificates for 300 pages. I would never buy another book from this author.
J**A
Nothing new and long blah, blah, blah. Waste of money and time.
This book contains little substance and is primarily comprised of repetitive dribble. The book is compilation of random thoughts/stories without any real substance. The author obviously does not have deep understanding of what he writes about and just moves on the surface.
A**R
This book sucked beyond belief
This book sucked beyond belief! It's essentially just a compilation of random thoughts/quotes/beliefs that he has taped together and thought it'd be a good idea to get some suckers to pay for it. The whole book could have been written as a single page, but better yet it would have better if it wasn't written at all!He keeps on repeating the same stuff and recycling and reminding again. His thoughts are unimaginative, and extremely poorly thought out, not to mention the stupid zen things he first talks about. After reading the whole, you're left wondering why you read the book at all, seeing as though you didn't really gain much from it.If you have bought this book already and can't return it or something, just read the 8th section of chapter 8 where he poorly explains this "mysterious" seventh sense of his which is mostly BS.
H**R
It's waste of your money
It's waste of your money. I should have listened to the reviewer warned us how this is nothing more than a few name dropping, 5 page worth of blog post made into 300-page book. It's a mess and honestly, I could not read till the end.
A**R
TOP 2 worst book I have bought in a decade
Its a scam. The author does not say anything. He observes the existence of networks in 2016. A bit too late for this basic level of common knowledge.On this day I just finished reading Amy Cuddy' s book Persistence. It was excellent. And started this one. It is like comparing day and night.What we can learn from the author is that great marketing, quotations from Napoleon to Nietzsche can be used to fool a reader in, because we are all lack of time to really check the quality. In a way Ramo used the power of network and my lack of time to cheat his 18 USD out of me :)
F**I
Pointless
Pages and pages of the obvious. Yes, everything is connected, we know. Yes, technological advances continue to make our world more connected and unpredictable. Yes, we know that people who are adaptable to change and relate new ideas to traditional wisdom may be more successful. 300 pages of thoughts written by an author who seems to think he is a master teacher of very loosely connected concepts with nothing cohesive or new to tell us by the end. I learned absolutely nothing from this worthless book.
S**E
One Star
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