📗 Libro en inglés THE TECHNOLOGICAL REPUBLIC

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 ONE OF FINANCIAL TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR 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 technologica