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The Technological Republic

The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir

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By: Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W.Zamiska
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The Sunday Times and #1 New York Times Bestseller

Silicon Valley’s brightest minds once collaborated with governments to advance technologies, securing the West’s dominance on the global stage. But that relationship has corroded – with perilous repercussions for us all.

Lifting the veil on tech giant Palantir and its broader political project, visionary co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and his long-time deputy Nicholas W. Zamiska offer a searing critique of our collective culture of complacency. To regain geopolitical power and preserve our freedoms, we must tackle the world’s most pressing challenges – including the artificial intelligence arms race – together and head-on. Now is the time for the West to wake up.

‘The Technological Republic is far too important to ignore’ Times Literary Supplement

‘Bold and ambitious … Essential reading’ Eric Schmidt

‘Fascinating’ Financial Times

‘A stirring manifesto’ Niall Ferguson

‘Provocative and insightful’ Jamie Dimon

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Critic Reviews

The wizards of America’s digital revolution have produced many shiny consumer products and apps. But they have often remained aloof from engaging in a sense of national purpose or common good. This book is a rallying cry, as we enter the age of artificial intelligence, for a return to the World War II era of cooperation between the technology industry and government in order to pursue innovation that will advance our national welfare and democratic goals. A fascinating and important work (Walter Isaacson)
[The Technological Republic] help[s] explain the sudden and extraordinary change of worldview that has seized much of the US tech elite… a fascinating, if at times disturbing, insight into the reassertion of US hard power
A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies... Likely the only book by a business executive to feature three epigrams (one in German), citations from the Bible, Richard Linklater's Before Sunset, and an outright attack on a market leader
Not since Allan Bloom’s astonishingly successful 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind — more than 1 million copies sold — has there been a cultural critique as sweeping as Karp’s
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
As clear and bracing as reveille... with engaging storytelling... Whether or not Americans can agree on how and why to defend the country, Karp and Zamiska make a stirring call for the tech industry to follow Palantir's path and get involved with the effort
A bold and ambitious work, The Technological Republic reminds us of a time when technological progress answered a national calling. It is essential reading in the age of AI, as the direction of Silicon Valley will help define the future of American leadership in the world
In today's complicated geopolitical, technological, and economic environment, the author's ability to be both well spoken and outspoken in The Technological Republic can help us understand important issues about the future prosperity of the United States and its allies. The book is by turns provocative and insightful, and Alex Karp's resilience, patriotism, and depth of experience in our rapidly changing world provide instructive lessons and intellectual arguments for all of us to consider
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This book is so insightful for its analysis of the digital technology industry and why it has been focused on the market and not nation building. The authors provide a new manifesto to get industry to align itself not just to the market but to stakeholders (the state, fellow countrymen).

A moral manifesto for industry and nations

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This book is rich with historical content and disturbingly accurate in its observations. Alex and Nic draw on the lessons of history and point to examples of individuals that made a difference, Often it is the disagreeable individuals in the eyes of the cultural elite that change the landscape noticeably. Their treatise of the tech entrepreneurs of the 70s and 80s effect on society as a result of their abandonment of national interest and focusing on the development of consumer bauble software and hardware is spot on. They correctly point out that the attitudinal changes of tech entrepreneurs were initially brought about by the meandering and often frustrating procurement and selection practices of government. A very informative and entertaining read.

A book worth listening to more than once

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