The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ramo

Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

An urgent analysis of how global power is being transformed by dense digital networks, arguing that the ability to perceive, navigate and shape networked flows of information, capital and influence has become a new strategic sense on par with traditional statecraft. It traces how interconnected platforms, corporations, cities and nonstate actors can move faster than nation-states, creating both opportunities and vulnerabilities — from cyber conflict and rapid market shifts to decentralized social movements — and urges governments and institutions to learn the logic of networks (speed, decentralization, emergent behavior) to remain effective in the 21st century.