UPDATED 04:21 EDT / JUNE 30 2016

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Satya Nadella will tell you how to adapt to the future in his first book

CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella has been outspoken of late concerning the advancement of technology and how it will shape our lives in the near future, having just written a detailed piece for Slate around what he called the “beauty of machines and humans working in tandem.” He’s also about to write his own book, much of it on this topic.

In the Slate piece Nadella outlines certain principles humans will have to follow in their quest to create technology – an emphasis on artificial intelligence – with ethics in mind. It’s a sobering, objective piece – you could call it a dos and don’t’s list for AI development – coming from someone who sounds like a fundamentally ‘good’ businessman. The article shares a positive outlook, but also shows Nadella’s wisdom as a technologist along with his humanitarian concerns. For this reason it will be interesting to see what the Microsoft boss has to say in his new book Hit Refresh.

Harper Collins Publishers gives a brief description of what we can expect to see in Hit Refresh:

Hit Refresh follows three storylines: Nadella’s personal journey of transformation, the change that is taking place today inside his storied technology company, and one that is coming in all of our lives as intelligent machines become more ambient and more ubiquitous throughout society.

The book, which should come out in the fall of 2017, will detail Nadella’s rise and the transformations of Microsoft, but also how he sees a future in which humans are much more immersed in technology. “This book is about change,” Nadella said in a press release. “It is not a ‘how to succeed’ book, nor is it a memoir – it’s premature for that. Ultimately, I am writing for Microsoft team members, customers, and partners in hopes that these stories of transformation will be useful to them as they navigate their own path.”

The proceeds from Hit Refresh will go to Microsoft Philanthropies, “to benefit nonprofits, specifically those working on public cloud for public good projects,” according to Harper Collins.

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