Carol Ann Browne Books

This author, drawing from her rich experience as a librarian, makes her debut with a book inspired by her nieces and nephews. Her artistic world encompasses pastel paintings, particularly portraits and animals, as showcased on her website. She also holds a deep fascination for patchwork and quilting. A profound love for animals, embodied by her adopted black cat Topsy, intertwines with her passion for travel, especially across the United States, which she views as a source of endless inspiration.

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

Tools and weapons : the promise and the peril of the digital age
368 pages
13 hours of reading
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"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"--
Tools and weapons: The promise and the peril of the digital age
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"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"--

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

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