November 4, 2010
NEWS & EVENTS

Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on the Digital Disruption

Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
ERIC SCHMIDT is Chair and CEO of Google. He is a Member of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology and Chair of the New America Foundation. JARED COHEN is Director of Google Ideas. He is an Adjunct Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of Children of Jihad and One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide.

Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen debate the role that connection technologies will play in statecraft and foreign policy, and how governments and businesses in the West should foster the spread and use of these technologies in places such as China and Iran.

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This session was part of the CFR Corporate Program's CEO Speaker series.

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