The New York Times bestseller, now updated with new material on
cyber attacks, digital sovereignty, and tech in a pandemic.
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.
"A colorful 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
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. In Tools and Weapons, Brad
Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the top
of Microsoft, as the company flies in the face of a tech sector long
obsessed with disruption as an end in itself, and in doing so navigates
some of the thorniest issues of our time--from privacy to cyberwar to
the challenges for democracy, far and near.
As the tumultuous events of 2020 brought technology and Big Tech even
further into the lives of almost all Americans, Smith and Browne updated
the book throughout to reflect a changed world. With three new chapters
on cybersecurity, technology and nation-states, and tech in the
pandemic, Tools and Weapons is an invaluable resource from the cockpit
of one of the world's largest tech companies.
