World becoming a computer, privacy is a human right: Nadella

TIL Desk/Business/Seattle/Observing that the world is becoming a computer, Indian American CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella has called for greater integration of ethical values and principles that protects individuals’ privacy, human values and democracy.

“The opportunity that we see (today), the world is becoming a computer. Computing is getting embedded in every person, place and thing, every walk of life in our homes, in our cars, and our works, in and out stadiums, entertainment centers, every industry from agriculture to precision medicine, from autonomous cars to autonomous drones, from personalised retailers to personalised banking, are all being transformed,” Nadella said in his key note address to the annual Microsoft Build 2018 conference in Seattle.

Addressing several thousand software developers including several from India, Nadella if one thinks about the sheer computing power that is getting distributed and how the computing power is being used to collect data, and create the rich experiences throughout our life it is pretty stunning. “That’s the opportunity,” Nadella told the developers.