Brad Smith (Author) Brad Smith is Microsoft's President. He is responsible for the company's corporate, external, and legal affairs and serves as the company's chief legal officer. He plays a key role in representing the company externally and in spearheading the company's work on critical issues relating to the intersection of technology and society, including cybersecurity, privacy, accessibility, environmental sustainability and digital inclusion.Carol Ann Browne (Author) Carol Ann Browne is a General Manager at Microsoft and is Brad's chief of staff and head of executive communications. She manages his external relations, executive communications, and daily business operations. Browne and Smith collaborate on a wide variety of writing, video and other communications. She joined Microsoft in 2010.
Tools and Weapons offers a clear view of the questions raised by
new technologies, and a potential path forward for tech companies
and for societies. - Bill Gates
One of the few executives willing to speak openly about the
industry's most vexing issues. - Sunday Times
'A colourful and insightful insiders' view of how technology is
both empowering and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks,
this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital
future.' - Walter Isaacson
Taming Big Tech will not be easy, but this book . . . shows where
to start. - The Financial Times
Smith's book is not the typical vanity project churned out by so
many Fortune 500 leaders, the generic tomes on leadership and
teamwork stocked at airport bookstores near the neck pillows. Tools
and Weapons is a glimpse behind the curtain as Microsoft reckoned
with the Snowden revelations, defended against the vicious
cyberattacks, and took both the Obama and Trump administrations to
court.' Rolling Stone
Brad Smith makes the case for a new relationship between the tech
sector and government - closer cooperation and challenges for each
side. - New York Times
Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne get to the heart of some of the
biggest tech issues of our time, including privacy, cybersecurity
and responsible AI, and their impact on all of our lives. - Satya
Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
This is a colorful and insightful insiders' view of how technology
is both empowering us and threatening us. From privacy to
cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to
navigate the digital future. - Walter Isaacson, bestselling author
of The Innovators and Steve Jobs
Coming from an industry driven by disruption, it's refreshing to
read Brad Smith's call for the tech sector to assume more
responsibility. In Tools and Weapons, Brad and Carol Ann Browne
wrestle with some of the world's toughest technology challenges
with common sense and valuable insight reflecting their inside
experience. The ideas in Tools and Weapons won't solve all our
problems, but they're a very good place to start. - Reed Hastings,
CEO, Netflix
'Casual readers who know Microsoft primarily for Windows, Office
and maybe Xbox will be surprised by the level of insight Smith
brings to some of the biggest issues facing not just the industry
but humanity. [Tools and Weapons] is written for a mass market, not
just tech and policy wonks. It offers a framework for everyday
readers to understand and think about the implications of powerful
new forms of technology. . . . It's full of behind-the-scenes
anecdotes, from internal Microsoft meetings to high-level sessions
at the Obama and Trump White Houses. It makes ample use of
historical references to put modern trends and technologies in
context.' - Geekwire
Brad Smith has emerged as a vocal and principled thought leader
addressing how technology can either help uphold or undermine human
rights. As digital technology continues to proliferate, these
issues will only grow in importance and command more of the world's
attention. - Amal Clooney, international human rights lawyer and
co-founder and president, Clooney Foundation for Justice
Tools and Weapons reads like a techno-legal thriller, yet offers a
thorough and eye-opening account of the major tech controversies of
the last decade, from NSA spying through AI ethics and the US-China
standoff. Brad Smith, a believer that "great power brings great
responsibility" makes it evident that the future of humanity may
depend on ethical and responsive leadership in the tech industries,
and in this book he sets a high bar for his peers. - Tim Wu, author
of The Curse of Bigness
With clarity and candor, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne have
crafted an indispensable guide to understanding and tackling the
mightiest tech challenges of our time. Drawing on firsthand
experience as well as the lessons of history, this perceptive
volume shows that solutions will not be solely governmental nor
corporate, but must involve collaboration across sectors and
borders. Timely, essential reading for all who care about where the
tech world goes next. - Margaret O'Mara, author of The Code
'In Tools and Weapons, Smith and co-author Carol Ann Browne, make a
persuasive, pragmatic case for owning that responsibility, in
everything from digital privacy and surveillance to cybersecurity
and social fragmentation to artificial intelligence and
facial-recognition technology.' - Seattle Times
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