Tools and weapons : the promise and the peril of the digital age

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Label

Tools and weapons : the promise and the peril of the digital age

Title remainder

the promise and the peril of the digital age

Statement of responsibility

Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne

Creator

• Smith, Brad, (Brad Lee), 1959-

Contributor

• Browne, Carol Ann

Author

• Browne, Carol Ann
• Smith, Brad, (Brad Lee), 1959-

Subject

• Digital electronics -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Computer crimes
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
• Computer science -- Social aspects
• Cyberspace -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

"In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne take us into 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"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

303.48/3

Index

index present

LC call number

HM851

LC item number

.S594 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography