The essential book on technology-related competition between nations and its impact on the worldNations have long sought to use technology as a power-multiplier for their own ambitions. In the twenty-first century, at a time of unprecedented innovation, the United States and China are in a race to achieve technological superiority. But how will this affect long-standing trade ties and the international landscape?Techno-nationalism holds that a nation’s econ...

Nations have long sought to use technology as a power-multiplier for their own ambitions. In the twenty-first century, at a time of unprecedented innovation, the United States and China are in a race to achieve technological superiority. But how will this affect long-standing trade ties and the international landscape?Techno-nationalism holds that a nation's economic strength and its national security—even its social stability—are linked to the technological prowess of its institut...

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The New York Times).You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geo...

**An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" PickOne of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books"An invaluable primer to arguably the most important driver of change for our future." —P. W. Singer, author of Burn-InAn award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry—the struggle to control artificial intelligence.**A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will tou...

A bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data—and our ability to deal with its effects.2021 Financial Times Best Book of the YearWe are living in the first exponential age.High-tech innovations are created at dazzling speeds; technological forces we barely understand remake our homes and workplaces; centuries-old tenets of politics and economics are upturned by new technologies....

A definitive, headline-making exposé of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has carried out the largest-scale theft of intellectual property, technology, and data in history—reshaping the global balance of power and redrawing the geopolitical map for decades to comeThe Great Heist exposes China's unprecedented state-orchestrated espionage campaign to strip the United States and its allies of their economic, technological, and military edge. Through a coo...

An expert on China’s global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow’s networks.From the ocean floor to outer space, China’s Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking readers on a journey inside China’s surveillance state, rural America, and Africa’s megacities, Jonathan Hillman reveals what China’s expanding digital footprint looks like on the ground and explores the economic...

In Japan Restored, New York Times bestselling author Clyde Prestowitz envisions post-bubble Japan in the year 2050, when the country's economic prosperity will have made it a world leader in every area.In 1979, the book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America by Harvard University professor Ezra Vogel caused a sensation in the United States by pointing out that Japan was surpassing America as world economic leader; to this day, it remains the all-time bestselling...

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA groundbreaking exploration of the shifting landscape of technological innovation and how it has transformed into a global phenomenon, challenging the traditional dominance of Silicon Valley.The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, elect...

The battle between major players in the semiconductor industry to produce the most advanced and powerful computer chips. These chips are the brains behind almost every technological device we use today, from smartphones and laptops to cars and household appliances.Up until recently, America led the world in chip design and production, maintaining its position as the dominant superpower. However, as manufacturers in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe take over, America's manufacturing advant...

Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications that address the United States' most formidable and pressing national security and foreign policy challenges. This edition is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2018 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, a bipartisan meeting of national security experts, academics, private sector leaders, and technologists. The introduction by Nicholas Burns, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and Condoleezza Rice provides an overview of technology's impact o...

This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments throughout the world, to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed. If left unexamined, they will lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all.For the past fifty years or so, the global economy has been run on three big assumptions: that globalization will continue to spread, that trade is the engine...