Silicon Valley has lost its way. In the past, the brightest minds worked with the government on groundbreaking technologies that moved the world forward. Thanks to them, the West gained superiority over its enemies and was able to ensure the safety of its citizens. Today, however, the relationship with technology has changed. Today's engineers and developers prefer to create marketing algorithms, social networks, and video-sharing platforms. The entire technology sector is obsessed with consumer culture, which wastes talent and capital on things that are trivial and fleeting. Moreover, this comfortable complacency has gradually spread to academia, politics, and corporate management.
And the result? The rise of an entire generation of people whose mission is to blindly fulfill the economic whims of late capitalism.
This state of affairs is uncompromisingly criticized in a book by Alexander C. Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the US, and its head of corporate affairs, Nicholas W. Zamiska. According to them, the software industry must return to addressing the most pressing challenges of today, such as the new arms race and the development of artificial intelligence.
In return, the state must open up to the engineering mindset that was behind the original boom in Silicon Valley. Leaders should reject intellectual fragility and create space for ideological clashes. According to Karp and Zamiska, the willingness to risk the disapproval of the crowd is the key to technological and economic performance.
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