Name: The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
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Author: Alexander C. Karp
ISBN: 9798217086269

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The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

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Physical Book

Author

Alexander C. Karp

Publisher

Crown

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.082 x 13.97 x 2.286 cm

ISBN13

9798217086269

The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

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Synopsis "The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West"

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street Journal

From the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambitious view of technology’s potential in Silicon Valley have made the U.S. vulnerable in an era of mounting global threats

“Not since Allan Bloom’s astonishingly successful 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind . . . has there been a cultural critique as sweeping.”—George F. Will, The Washington Post

“Provocative [and] worthy of your time.”—Edith 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 West’s 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 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. The government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that has propelled Silicon Valley’s 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.

Alexander C. Karp

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Alexander Caedmon Karp es un empresario, pensador tecnológico y escritor estadounidense, conocido por ser cofundador y director ejecutivo de Palantir Technologies. Formado en filosofía y derecho, ha desarrollado una trayectoria poco habitual dentro del mundo tecnológico, combinando intereses en teoría política, ética y geopolítica con el desarrollo de software de análisis de datos a gran escala. Su figura ha ganado notoriedad por su defensa de una mayor implicación de las empresas tecnológicas en asuntos de Estado, especialmente en seguridad y defensa, posicionándose como una voz influyente —y a menudo polémica— dentro del debate sobre el poder de Silicon Valley en el siglo XXI.

Es coautor, junto a Nicholas W. Zamiska, de La república tecnológica: Poder duro, pensamiento débil y el futuro de Occidente (2025), un ensayo que plantea una crítica frontal a la complacencia tecnológica y propone reconfigurar la relación entre industria, gobierno y poder global. En esta obra, Karp articula una visión donde la innovación debe alinearse con objetivos estratégicos y políticos, defendiendo el papel activo de la tecnología en la configuración del orden internacional. Su escritura se caracteriza por un tono provocador y ensayístico, más cercano al manifiesto político que al análisis académico convencional.

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