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

Karp, Alexander C., (author.). Zamiska, Nicholas W., (author.).

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]
Copyright: ©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.