About the Author

Henry A Kissinger (Author) Henry Kissinger served as the 56th Secretary of State from September 1973 until January 1977. He is currently a member of the Defense Policy Board. Dr. Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, and the Medal of Liberty in 1986. At present, he is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., aninternational consulting firm.Eric Schmidt (Author) Eric Schmidt served as Google's CEO from 2001 to 2011. During that time he shepherded the company's growth from a Silicon Valley start-up to a global technology leader that today has over $55 billion in annual revenues and offices in more than 40 countries. Eric is now Google's executive chairman.Daniel Huttenlocher (Author) Daniel Huttenlocher is the inaugural dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Previously he helped found Cornell Tech, the digital technology oriented graduate school created by Cornell University in New York City, and served as its first Dean and Vice Provost. His research and teaching have been recognized by a number of awardsincluding ACM Fellow and CASE Professor of the Year. He has a mix of academic and industry background, having been a Computer Science faculty member at Cornell, researcher and manager at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and CTO of a fintech startup. He currently serves as the board chair of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and as a member of the board of Corning Inc. and Amazon.com. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, and master's and doctorate from MIT.

Reviews

It should be read by anyone trying to make sense of geopolitics today
*Financial Times*

A muscular contribution to one of the 21st century's most pressing debates
*The Economist*

What it does - and does brilliantly - is illuminate the new problem we have created for ourselves
*Niall Ferguson*

Absolutely masterful . . . the book we all need
*Fareed Zakariya*