Microsoft's Nadella rallies coders to prevent dystopian future

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used his company's annual developers conference Wednesday to caution developers that they use their powers for good and build systems that avoid the dystopian predictions of authors George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. "The opportunity for developers to have broad impact on all parts of society has never been greater," Nadella, a former Microsoft engineer, told 5,500 developers assembled in the city's convention center hall. "But with this opportunity comes enormous responsibility." The CEO added that he considered himself "a tech optimist, (but) there are unintended consequences of technology," consequences that won't be solved by technology itself, but only by its creators. Microsoft's new smart speaker looks exactly like the Amazon Echo (Photo: Reviewed.com)