2025 TheTechnologicalRepublic

• (Karp & Zamiska, 2025) ⇒ Alexander C. Karp, and Nicholas W. Zamiska. (2025). “The Technological Republic.” ISBN: 9780593798690

Subject Headings: Cultural Criticism, Inter-Nation Competition.

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• The book critiques Silicon Valley's shift from addressing national challenges to focusing on trivial consumer applications[1]
• The book examines the historical golden age of collaboration between Silicon Valley and U.S. federal agencies, contrasting it with today's market-driven focus[1]
• The book warns about China's coordinated AI strategy as an existential threat to Western democracies, particularly in areas like facial recognition and drone technology
• The book advocates for a renewed partnership between the tech sector and government institutions, similar to the Manhattan Project model[1]
• The book criticizes the tech industry's intellectual fragility and ideological conformity, which discourages work on controversial but necessary projects[1]
• The book proposes the creation of a "Digital Service Academy" to train engineers with a focus on national security priorities
• The book argues that excessive ethical caution in AI development gives advantages to authoritarian regimes that operate with minimal oversight
• The book traces the decline of Western technological dominance and offers a blueprint for renewal through engineering pragmatism[1]
• The book challenges Silicon Valley's current corporate governance, which prioritizes stakeholder capitalism over mission-driven innovation
• The book promotes "ruthless pragmatism" as a solution, advocating for accepting imperfect solutions to urgent problems rather than seeking theoretical perfection

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2025 TheTechnologicalRepublic	Alexander C. Karp Nicholas W. Zamiska			The Technological Republic						2025