A sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency and apassionate call to wake up to our new reality from the bold thinkersbehind tech giant PalantirOur most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with governmentto advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West’sdominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has noweroded, with perilous repercussions.In this ground-breaking treatise, one of tech’s boldest thinkers and hislongtime deputy offer a searing critique of our collective abandonmentof ambition. Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and NicholasW. Zamiska argue that in order for the West to retain its globaledge?and preserve the freedoms we take for granted?the software industrymust renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges,including the new arms race of artificial intelligence.At once iconoclastic and rigorous, this books also lifts the veil ontech giant Palantir and its broader political project from the inside,offering a passionate call for the West to wake up to our new reality.
