Microsoft's Brad Smith: "Orwell's 1984 was a warning"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Microsoft's Brad Smith: "Orwell's 1984 was a warning"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:49:43
• Published: 2019-11-08 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson bring on Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, to talk about suing the government (3:00), working at Microsoft for a quarter of a century (5:00), how battling the government changed the company’s approach (7:00), whether Silicon Valley will do the same (9:40), calling for a cultural revolution (11:40), being careful about who they sell their tech to (14:30), the rising demands of tech employees (19:00), why this time is different with artificial intelligence (21:200), the new age of anxiety (29:10), the culture of tech (31:35), how Silicon Valley is like the Galapagos (34:10), how it is changing (36:00), the primacy of data centres (37:30), how tech companies are like banks (40:55), and data privacy as a human right (44:30).

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