One could be forgiven for having low expectations about finding groundbreaking points and “real meat” in 250-plus pages written by two technology celebrities and shepherded by a glorifying list of supporters including Steve Jobs, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Henry Kissinger. Yet Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s “The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business” surprisingly delivers a cutthroat view on what the future will look like.

The duo of Google’s executive chairman and its director of Google Ideas convincingly diagrams the ways in which technology and diplomacy will intersect. The authors are on point in writing that “there is a canyon dividing people who understand technology and people charged with addressing the world’s toughest geopolitical issues, and no one has built a bridge.” This broad strokes statement is predictable, but the details that follow are thoroughly captivating.

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