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The Technological Republic : Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West / Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska.
"A sweeping indictment of Silicon Valley, showing how the West has slid into a culture of complacency, even as we enter a new era of mounting global threats"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780593798690 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xvi 295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Currency, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Argues that Silicon Valleyâs shift toward superficial tech pursuits threatens Western dominance and urges a revival of meaningful government-industry collaboration to tackle pressing challenges such as AI, and to promote intellectual resilience and sustained global leadership. - Baker & Taylor
"A sweeping indictment of Silicon Valley, showing how the West has slid into a culture of complacency, even as we enter a new era of mounting global threats"-- - Random House, Inc.
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠âA cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.ââThe Wall Street Journal
From the Palantir co-founder, one of Timeâs 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the Westâs culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambitious view of technologyâs potential in Silicon Valley have made the U.S. vulnerable in an era of mounting global threats
âNot since Allan Bloomâs astonishingly successful 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind . . . has there been a cultural critique as sweeping.ââGeorge F. Will, The Washington Post
âProvocative [and] worth your time.ââEdith Chapin, Editor-in-Chief, NPR (Top Staff Pick)
Silicon Valley has lost its way.
Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the Westâs dominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has now eroded, with perilous repercussions.
Today, the market rewards shallow engagement with the potential of technology. Engineers and founders build photo-sharing apps and marketing algorithms, unwittingly becoming vessels for the ambitions of others. This complacency has spread into academia, politics, and the boardroom. The result? An entire generation for whom the narrow-minded pursuit of the demands of a late capitalist economy has become their calling.
In this groundbreaking treatise, Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition, arguing that in order for the U.S. and its allies to retain their global edgeâand preserve the freedoms we take for grantedâthe software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges, including the new arms race of artificial intelligence. The government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that has propelled Silicon Valleyâs success.
Above all, our 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 outperformance.
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.
