9798217089741 - The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West von Karp, Alexander C.; Zamiska, Nicholas W. (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. Alexander C. Karp is the co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies. He earned his doctorate in social theory from Goethe University in Germany and is a graduate of Haverford College and Stanford Law School.Nicholas W. Zamiska is head.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies."The Wall Street JournalFrom 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 . . . worthy of your time."Edith Chapin, former Editor-in-Chief of NPRSilicon 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 edgeand preserve the freedoms we take for grantedthe 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 also lifts 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.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies."The Wall Street JournalFrom 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 . . . worthy of your time."Edith Chapin, former Editor-in-Chief of NPRSilicon 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 edgeand preserve the freedoms we take for grantedthe 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 also lifts 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.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The Technological Republic | Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West | Alexander C. Karp (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Crown Currency | XVI | Englisch | 2026 | Random House LLC US | EAN 9798217089741 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, 22083 Hamburg, gpsr[at]petersen-buchimport[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies."The Wall Street JournalFrom 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 . . . worthy of your time."Edith Chapin, former Editor-in-Chief of NPRSilicon 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 edgeand preserve the freedoms we take for grantedthe 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 also lifts 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. 320 pp. Englisch.