Its like a weapon: what dangers are fraught with the development of high technologies. Smith B., Brown K.

The development of the IT industry has transformed modern reality over several decades. Now we live and work in the digital world, and leading IT companies have a large amount of personal data than any government on the planet. The ability to collect and process huge volumes of information has become a powerful tool for progress and formidable weapons at the same time. But who actually manages them?

the authors of this book, the leaders of Microsoft, reveal the most urgent problems that are facing IT companies and talk about their way of solving them. How to find the correct balance of public security and the inviolability of private life in this new era? How to protect yourself from attackers who use new technologies for cyber attacks for entire countries, corporations or the private life of citizens? Will we be able to create a world in which our children will be able to find work? Can we generally control the new world? The ability to collect huge amounts of user data is a stick about the two -edges. And the structure of the world in which we have to live depend on how IT companies solve the most important ethical problems.