As a graduate student, Jared Cohen wangled a visa to Iran, where he hung out at Internet cafés and house parties fueled by bathtub gin. From there his journeys took him to beach parties in Lebanon, Palestinian refugee camps, raves in Syria organized using Bluetooth and other places not usually frequented by nice Jewish boys from the Connecticut suburbs. Out of these experiences came a book,Children of Jihad, and a fascination with life at the intersection of technology and geopolitics. He joined the State Department’s Policy Planning staff and, along with other geogeeks like Alec Ross, helped shape what became known as 21st century statecraft, which added social media to the tool kit of diplomacy. When Twitter was planning to shut down for maintenance right before the 2009 Iranian elections, Cohen persuaded the company not to because it had become an organizing method for young dissidents.

In 2010, Cohen left State to found Google Ideas, which focuses on how technology can help make the world better. One example: in April he led Google in donating $3 million to create a database system to connect 65 independent hotlines used to report human trafficking. He and Google chair Eric Schmidt have just published a book, The New Digital Age, that analyzes this global transformation. It should establish Cohen as one of the pre-eminent navigators of the networked world.

Isaacson is the author of Steve Jobs and CEO of the Aspen Institute

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作為一名研究生，賈里德·科恩wangled簽證到伊朗，在那裡，他掛出了網吧和家庭聚會得益於浴缸杜松子酒。從那裡，他的行程把他帶到沙灘派對在黎巴嫩的巴勒斯坦難民營，使用藍牙等場所通常不從康涅狄格州郊區漂亮的猶太男孩經常在敘利亞舉辦贊不絕口。在這些經驗來了一本書，聖戰的兒童，並與生活的迷戀，在技術和地緣政治的交叉點。他參加了國務院的政策規劃和工作人員，以及其他geogeeks像亞歷克·羅斯，幫助塑造了後來被稱為21世紀的治國之道，它增加了社交媒體外交的工具包。當微博正計劃在2009年伊朗大選前有權停車檢修，科恩說服公司不能因為它已經成為一種組織方法，為青少年持不同政見者。

2010年，科恩離開了國發現谷歌的想法，其重點是如何利用技術幫助使世界變得更美好。一個例子：在4月，他帶領谷歌在捐贈300萬美元建立一個數據庫系統連接，用於報告販運人口65熱線無關。他和谷歌的椅子埃里克·施密特剛剛出版了一本書，新的數字時代，它通過分析這一全球性變革。它應建立科恩作為網絡世界的卓越的航海家之一。

艾薩克森是史蒂夫·喬布斯的阿斯本研究所的作者兼首席執行官