The Technological Republic
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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From the Palantir co-founder and The Economist’s ‘best CEO of 2024,’ and his deputy, a sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency and a passionate call for the West to wake up to our new reality.
Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West’s dominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has now eroded, with perilous repercussions.
In this groundbreaking treatise, one of tech’s boldest thinkers and his longtime deputy offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition. Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska argue that in order for the West to retain its global edge—and preserve the freedoms we take for granted—the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges, including the new arms race of artificial intelligence. Government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that have propelled Silicon Valley’s success.
Above all, leaders must reject intellectual fragility and preserve space for ideological confrontation. A willingness to risk the disapproval of the crowd, Karp and Zamiska contend, has everything to do with technological and economic out-performance.
At once iconoclastic and rigorous, this book will also lift the veil on Palantir and its broader political project from the inside, offering a passionate call for the West to wake up to our new reality.
“Equal parts company lore, jeremiad, and homily . . . The primary target of The Technological Republic is not a nation that has failed Silicon Valley. It is more cogent and original as a story about how Silicon Valley has failed the nation.”
—The New Yorker
“The Technological Republic provides a fascinating, if at times disturbing, insight into the reassertion of US hard power.”
—The Financial Times, “Best Books of the Week”
“"A scathing indictment of today’s complacent Silicon Valley . . . [A] big-idea book that’s getting a lot of buzz.”
—Toronto Star
©2025 Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska (P)2025 Penguin Audio
Customer Reviews
Oh no, your rush for anything but the good
Brilliant in the introduction of ideas of the future, the wastelands of the app era, the genius of aligning a ‘belief’ that this was the creative capitalist work of the best of us; yes the making of money through tinsel.
The so called collapse of ‘western civilisation’ where Churchill stands as one who defines a state and Gandhi doesn’t. Hmmm - as Gandhi said on being asked what he thought of western civilisation- he responded, yes, wouldn’t it be nice…. I don’t think the writer gets it. There wasn’t a grand colonist era. They were flawed almost totally for the other…
The distaste of young Australian’s (eg) to the USA could be thought of as ‘your hate for others’ - that’s how we saw you even as we laughed at everything’F Troop’ presented.
And on - and here,again, the authors focus on the one animating consistency of the US purpose: being the very best at war with weapons of war and places to test your creativity- some slaughter house somewhere. The trick here is your flock is off licking the sugar of success