What can the tech industry learn from Chernobyl?

What can the tech industry learn from Chernobyl?

New technologies pose big challenges to our privacy, our jobs, even our democracies. Microsoft president Brad Smith, author with Carol Anne Brown of the new book Tools and Weapons, discusses what can be done.

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