The instant NY Times bestseller.

From Microsoft’s president and among the tech industry’s broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous guarantee and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.

“A colorful and insightful insiders’ watch of how technology is both empowering and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely reserve is a good guide for how to navigate the digital potential.” -Walter Isaacson

Microsoft about Tools and Weapons: The Guarantee and the Peril of the Digital Age Leader Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to greatly help address the world you have helped create. This may seem uncontroversial, but it flies when confronted with a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and occasionally on disruption as an end alone. While sweeping digital change holds great promise, we have reached an inflection stage. The world offers turned it into both a powerful tool and a formidable tool, and new techniques are had a need to manage an era defined by a lot more effective inventions like artificial cleverness. Companies that create technology must acknowledge greater responsibility for the future, and governments should regulate technology by shifting faster and getting up with the pace of innovation.

In Tools and Weaponry, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the cockpit of one from the world’s largest & most effective tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are problems that include no preexisting playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial cleverness, big tech’s relationship to inequality, and the difficulties for democracy, much and near. While in no way a self-glorifying ‘Microsoft memoir,’ the publication pulls back again the curtain remarkably wide onto a number of the company’s most important recent decision points as it strives to safeguard the expectations technology presents against the real threats it also presents. You will find huge ramifications for neighborhoods and countries, and Brad Smith offers a thoughtful and immediate contribution compared to that effort.