“Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is ...” — Sharan Burrow Quote

Technological developments are changing the way we live, and there is much talk of digitalisation and the disruptive business models enabled by smart phones, tablets, computers, and the 'Internet of things.'

Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring.

When corporations refuse to practice due diligence by not establishing grievance mechanisms for remedy of abuses against the hidden 94% of their workforce in their global supply chains, they perpetuate a depraved model of profit-making that has driven inequality to a level now seen as a global risk in itself.

We all eat breakfast in the morning, we all go to sleep at night, and we all want our kids to have opportunities that we didn't.

My daughter was 10 years old when she told me she hated computers. As someone who has spent her career helping build one of the largest tech companies in the world, I was in shock. Suddenly an issue I faced repeatedly at work - the lack of women in tech - hit squarely at home.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

When I was a graduate student in computer science in the early 2000s, computers were barely able to detect sharp edges in photographs, let alone recognize something as loosely defined as a human face.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.