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Tools and Weapons - The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age (Hardcover)
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Tools and Weapons - The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age (Hardcover)
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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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