Best Selling Books by Carol Ann Browne

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.

Die Digitalisierung ist einer der definierenden Trends unserer Zeit. Informationstechnologien entwickeln sich dabei zugleich zu mächtigen Werkzeugen, bergen aber auch ernstzunehmende Risiken. Neben vielen positiven Errungenschaften konfrontiert sie unsere Gesellschaften jedoch auch mit existenziellen Bedrohungen wie der Gefahr durch Cybercrime, Eingriffe in die Privatsphäre und Angriffe auf demokratische Prozesse. Brad Smith, Präsident von Microsoft, und Carol Ann Browne, Senior Director of External Relations and Communications bei Microsoft, beides Insider aus der Schaltzentrale eines der weltweit führenden IT-Konzerne, plädieren an alle Unternehmen, Organisationen und Regierungen, jetzt zu handeln und die Weichen so zu stellen, dass Künstliche Intelligenz und andere Technologien nicht zu Missbrauch, sondern in eine gute Zukunft für uns alle führen.

Dragon Magic is a fantasy adventure book for young readers. ''The Tribe'', is the nickname of a sister and three brothers who love action and adventure. Their lives are completely changed when they befriend a baby dragon they discover in the woods. His mother had laid her egg on earth for safety, with the intention of coming back for him. When the Dragon Queen finds him with the children, she asks if they will keep an eye on him as it is not safe for her to take him back to their home planet. She weaves a spell of invisibility around him and gives them each a talisman so that they can still see him. These gifts also have a magic spell which enables them to instantly go to anywhere they wish, simply by just picturing it in their minds. They find this good fun, until they make a silly mistake which takes them back in time to a medieval castle. There they meet an alchemist with ambitions in sorcery. He steals Michael''s talisman, which traps them in the middle ages. They need help to free them from the dungeon, and a different kind of magic to get them back home. During their time travel adventure they make a discovery which will assist the Dragon Queen in her quest to rid her home planet of a wicked wizard. The Dragon Magic fantasy adventure is suitable for children age 7-12 or by even younger children as a bedtime story. The places visited in the book really do exist.

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