Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Remember the time when the internet was trumpeted as the tech tool that would deliver us a golden age of knowledge, freedom and democracy . Well, now we are in a darker, more cynical place. The digital revolution has generated fears about lost privacy, mass surveillance and systemic misinformation. Have the corporate titans of tech failed us . Well, my guest today is brad smith, president of microsoft. How do we ensure our astonishing technological advances are harnessed for good, not harm . Brad smith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, nice to be here. You have served an extraordinary amount of time at microsoft, the best part of three decades. You have seen the evolution of our attitudes towards Information Technology and the internet in particular. I have referred to the sort of great positivity, the optimism, in the early years. Would you agree that these days, we are much more anxious and fearful about w
Now on bbc news, Stephen Sackur speaks and pressure mounts on firms to microsofts president to show they mean businesses when it comes to battling Climate Change brad smith on hardtalk. A un summit kicks off in new york today. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur. Remember the time when the internet was trumpeted as the tech tool that would deliver us a golden age of knowledge, freedom and democracy . Well, now we are in a darker, more cynical place. The digital revolution has generated fears about lost privacy, mass surveillance and systemic misinformation. Have the corporate titans of tech failed us . Well, my guest today is brad smith, president of microsoft. How do we ensure our astonishing technological advances are harnessed for good, not harm . Brad smith, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, nice to be here. You have served an extraordinary amount of time at microsoft, the best part of three decades. You have seen the evolution of our attitudes towards Information Technology and t
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