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Tools And Weapons - The Promise And The Peril Of The Digital Age (Paperback)
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Tools And Weapons - The Promise And The Peril Of The Digital Age (Paperback)
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*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM BOOK
CLUB PICK*
'A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in
technology today.' Bill Gates, from the foreword
'The de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large.' The New
York Times
'One of the few executives willing to speak openly about the industry's
most vexing issues.' Sunday Times
Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: when
your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help
address the world you have helped create.
This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech
sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as
an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great
promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned
information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable
weapon, and new approaches are needed to manage an era defined by even
more powerful inventions like artificial intelligence. Companies that
create technology must accept greater responsibility for the future,
and governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and
catching up with the pace of innovation.
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a
captivating narrative from the cockpit of one of the world's largest
and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of
some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges
that come with no pre-existing playbook, including privacy, cybercrime
and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial
intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges
for democracy, far and near. While in no way a self-glorifying
"Microsoft memoir," the book pulls back the curtain remarkably wide
onto some of the company's most crucial recent decision points as it
strives to protect the hopes technology offers against the very real
threats it also presents. There are huge ramifications for communities
and countries, and Brad Smith provides a thoughtful and urgent
contribution to that effort.
From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest
thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous
promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything
accelerates.
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith takes us behind the scenes on some of
the biggest stories to hit the tech industry in the past decade and
some of the biggest threats we face. From Edward Snowden's NSA leak to
the NHS WannaCry ransomware attack, this book is essential reading to
understand what's happening in the world around us.
If you watched Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates on Netflix, you
will find Tools and Weapons equally fascinating.
'This is a colourful and insightful insiders' view of how technology is
both empowering us and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks,
this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital
future.' Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Steve Jobs
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