“A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today.”—Bill Gates, from the foreword
From Microsoft’s president and one of the tech industry’s broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.
Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simp...
“A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today.”—Bill Gates, from the foreword
From Microsoft’s president and one of the tech industry’s broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.
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.
作者简介
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Brad Smith is Microsoft's president, where he leads a team of more than 1,400 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals working in 56 countries. He plays a key role in spearheading the company's work on critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society, including cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, human rights, immigration, philanthrop...
Brad Smith is Microsoft's president, where he leads a team of more than 1,400 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals working in 56 countries. He plays a key role in spearheading the company's work on critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society, including cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, human rights, immigration, philanthropy and environmental sustainability. The Australian Financial Review has described Smith as "one of the technology industry's most respected figures," and the New York Times has called him "a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large."
Carol Ann Browne is senior director of communications and external relations at Microsoft. Browne and Smith have collaborated on a wide variety of writing, video, and other external engagements around the world, including their Today in Technology blog series.
I appreciate the author use a readable words to explain some key points in tech industry. I admire his openness to mention some questions that he already had thoughts, as well as some have to be discu...I appreciate the author use a readable words to explain some key points in tech industry. I admire his openness to mention some questions that he already had thoughts, as well as some have to be discussed and solved by engaging more people. (展开)
《Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age》是由微软总裁布拉德·史密斯(Brad Smith)所著的一本书。这本书深入探讨了数字时代技术的双重性:一方面,技术带来了巨大的希望和潜力;另一方面,它也带来了前所未有的风险和挑战。作为世界上最聪明的头...
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1 有用 洛洛 2019-11-21 12:59:41
微软真的是很会讲故事做营销的公司啊 这么多年作为科技大鳄不倒真的是有理由的。 没有说多少真话 却也没说假话 在现在的工作所处风口 值得一读吧
1 有用 cheryl 2019-12-20 06:59:43
I appreciate the author use a readable words to explain some key points in tech industry. I admire his openness to mention some questions that he already had thoughts, as well as some have to be discu... I appreciate the author use a readable words to explain some key points in tech industry. I admire his openness to mention some questions that he already had thoughts, as well as some have to be discussed and solved by engaging more people. (展开)
0 有用 yu 2019-10-27 23:08:14
Too general.. and feel like a promotion of Microsoft.
0 有用 小宗 2020-04-22 23:53:46
读了三章大概知道行文套路了。章节标题似乎都是热点课题,但章节内容却点到即止,毕竟作者的立场在微软,该说的多说点,不该说的就借用大道理或者避而不谈。总的来说不够深刻,没什么新东西。
0 有用 资词向量 2021-03-05 13:25:22
有些幕后轶闻还蛮有意思的,corpspeak也可以快进学习一下