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The technological republic : hard power, soft belief, and the future of the West  Cover Image Book Book

The technological republic : hard power, soft belief, and the future of the West / Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska.

Summary:

"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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0593798694
  • ISBN: 9780593798690
  • ISBN: 9798217086269
  • Physical Description: xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Currency, [2025]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-284) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface -- Part I: The software century -- Lost valley -- Sparks of intelligence -- The winner's fallacy -- End of the atomic age -- Part II: The hollowing out of the American mind -- The abandonment of belief -- Technological agnostics -- A balloon cut loose -- "Flawed systems" -- Lost in Toyland -- Part III: The engineering mindset -- The Eck swarm -- the improvisational startup -- The disapproval of the crowd -- Building a better rifle -- A cloud or a clock -- Part IV: Rebuilding the technological republic -- Into the desert -- Piety and its price -- The next thousand years -- An aesthetic point of view.
Subject: Power (Social sciences)
Regression (Civilization)
Technology and state > United States.
Technology > Social aspects > United States.
World politics > 21st century.
Western countries > Social conditions > Forecasting.

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  • 1 of 2 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Hood River County Library District.

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Hood River County Library 352.745 KAR 2025 (Text) 33892101034925 Adult New Books Reshelving -

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250 . ‡aFirst edition.
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520 . ‡a"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"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
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