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Alexander C. Karp
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February 2025
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“The modern incarnation of Silicon Valley has strayed significantly from this tradition of collaboration with the U.S. government, focusing instead on the consumer market, including the online advertising and social media platforms that have come to dominate—and limit—our sense of the potential of technology. A generation of founders cloaked themselves in the rhetoric of lofty and ambitious purpose—indeed their rallying cry to change the world has grown lifeless from overuse—but often raised enormous amounts of capital and hired legions of talented engineers merely to build photo-sharing apps and chat interfaces for the modern consumer.”
― The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
― The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
“You will never touch the hearts of others, if it does not emerge from your own.”
― The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
― The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
“The grand, collectivist experiments of the earlier part of the twentieth century were discarded in favor of a narrow attentiveness to the desires and needs of the individual. The market rewarded shallow engagement with the potential of technology, as startup after startup catered to the whims of late capitalist culture without any interest in constructing the technical infrastructure that would address our most significant challenges as a nation. The age of social media platforms and food delivery apps had arrived. Medical breakthroughs, education reform, and military advances would have to”
― The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
― The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
