The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
by Brad Smith
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American co-founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, and author
American author, journalist and professor (born 1952)
Recommended by 7 notable people, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Brad Smith writes from an executive vantage point, linking vivid company anecdotes to the policy dilemmas created by rapid digitization. The most useful material is the catalog of real-world incidents and clear, concrete explanations of how corporate choices meet legal pressure — handy for briefing others or framing policy debates. The writing favors managerial reasoning over systematic critique, so readers seeking sharp outsider skepticism or deep technical unpacking may feel underserved. Repetitive defense of corporate decisions appears at times, and long regulatory passages slow the pace.
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With a foreword by Bill Gates From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: when your Technology, changes the world, you...
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Recommended by 11 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Warren Buffett, Books Recommended by Bill Gates, and Books Recommended by CEOs.
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