02942nam a2200337 i 4500 OSt 20230315164613.0 230208t20212021enk gr 001 0 eng d 9781984877734 RM 61.50 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 303.483 23 303.483 SMI G Smith, Brad, (Brad Lee), 1959-, author. TOOLS AND WEAPONS : THE PROMISE AND THE PERIL OF THE DIGITAL AGE / BRAD SMITH AND CAROL ANN BROWNE ; FOREWORD BY BILL GATES. Revised and Updated United States : Penguin Books, 2021. ©2021 xxvi, 434 pages ; 22 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibiliographical references and index. 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 preexisting 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. Provided by publisher. Computer science Social aspects Cyberspace Social aspects Digital electronics Moral and ethical aspects Computer crimes Browne, Carol Ann, author. Gates, Bill, author of foreword. ddc B 191390 191390 0 0 PPAK G 2023-04-12 2 303.483 SMI A01777433 2026-02-08 08:56:27 2026-01-18 B 0 0 SP G 2023-04-12 2 303.483 SMI A01777434 2025-07-28 11:24:36 2025-05-27 B 0 0 KM G 2023-04-12 0 303.483 SMI A01777435 2023-04-12 00:00:00 B