Tools and weapons : the promise and the peril of the digital age / Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne.

By:

Smith, Brad, 1959-

Contributor(s):

Browne, Carol Ann

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2019Description: xxii, 346 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1984877712 (hardcover)

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tools and weaponsDDC classification:

303.48/3

LOC classification:

HM 851 S643t 2019

Contents:

Foreword / by Bill Gates -- Introduction: The Cloud: the world's filing cabinet -- Surveillance: a three-hour fuse -- Technology and public safety: "I'd rather be a loser than a liar" -- Privacy: a fundamental human right -- Cybersecurity: the wake-up call for the world -- Protecting democracy: "A republic, if you can keep it" -- Social media: the freedom that drives us apart -- Digital diplomacy: the geopolitics of technology -- Consumer privacy: "The guns will turn" -- Rural broadband: the electricity of the twenty-first century -- The talent gap: the people side of technology -- AI and ethics: don't ask what computer can do, ask what they should do -- AI and facial recognition: do our faces deserve the same protection as our phones? -- AI and the workforce: the day the horse lost its job -- The United States and China: a bipolar tech world -- Democratizing the future: the need for an open data revolution -- Conclusion: Managing technology that is bigger than ourselves.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Ciencias Sociales	Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso)	HM 851 S643t 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000158507

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Bill Gates --
Introduction: The Cloud: the world's filing cabinet --
Surveillance: a three-hour fuse --
Technology and public safety: "I'd rather be a loser than a liar" --
Privacy: a fundamental human right --
Cybersecurity: the wake-up call for the world --
Protecting democracy: "A republic, if you can keep it" --
Social media: the freedom that drives us apart --
Digital diplomacy: the geopolitics of technology --
Consumer privacy: "The guns will turn" --
Rural broadband: the electricity of the twenty-first century --
The talent gap: the people side of technology --
AI and ethics: don't ask what computer can do, ask what they should do --
AI and facial recognition: do our faces deserve the same protection as our phones? --
AI and the workforce: the day the horse lost its job --
The United States and China: a bipolar tech world --
Democratizing the future: the need for an open data revolution --
Conclusion: Managing technology that is bigger than ourselves.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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