The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West | 誠品線上

科技共和國

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內容簡介 空降《紐約時報》暢銷榜第一名 • NPR 年度最佳圖書 •「這是一份沉痛的抗議，瞄準了科技業背棄協助美國及其盟友的歷史。」——《華爾街日報》本書由 Palantir 共同創辦人（獲選 2025 年《時代》雜誌百大影響力人物）及其副手共同撰寫。這是一部廣受好評且力道強勁的控訴，直指西方世界的自滿文化。書中主張：膽怯的領導力、智識上的脆弱，以及矽谷對技術潛力的平庸想像，已使美國在日益嚴峻的全球威脅時代中變得脆弱。「自 1987 年艾倫·布魯姆（Allan Bloom）極其成功的著作《關閉美國心靈》以來……尚未出現過如此全面且徹底的文化評論。」——喬治·威爾（George F. Will），《華盛頓郵報》「具挑釁性……值得你花時間閱讀。」——伊迪絲·查平（Edith Chapin），前 NPR 總編輯矽谷已經迷失了方向。我們最傑出的工程天才曾與政府合作，推動改變世界的技術。他們的努力鞏固了西方在地緣政治秩序中的主導地位。然而，這種關係現在已經侵蝕，並帶來了危險的後果。如今，市場獎勵的是對技術潛力的膚淺開發。工程師與創辦人致力於開發照片分享應用程式和行銷演算法，在無意中淪為他人野心的工具。這種自滿情緒已蔓延到學術界、政界和董事會。結果呢？這讓整整一代人的志向，變成了狹隘地追求晚期資本主義經濟體制下的各項需求。在這部開創性的論著中，Palantir 共同創辦人兼執行長亞歷山大·卡普（Alexander C. Karp）與尼可拉斯·札米斯卡（Nicholas W. Zamiska）對我們集體放棄雄心的行為提出了嚴厲批判。他們主張，為了讓美國及其盟友保持全球優勢，並維護我們視為理所當然的自由，軟體產業必須重新致力於應對最迫切的挑戰，包括人工智慧的新軍備競賽。反之，政府也必須接納促成矽谷成功的工程思維中最有效的部分。最重要的是，我們的領導者必須拒絕智識上的脆弱，並為意識形態的對抗保留空間。卡普與札米斯卡認為，唯有願意冒著被大眾反對的風險，才能在技術和經濟上取得超越性的表現。本書既具顛覆性又嚴謹，同時從內部揭開了 Palantir 及其更廣泛政治計畫的神祕面紗，向西方世界發出熱情的呼籲：是時候覺醒並面對我們的新現實了。INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing that timid leadership, intellectual fragility, and an unambitious view of technology’s potential in Silicon Valley have made the U.S. vulnerable in an era of mounting global threats“Not since Allan Bloom’s astonishingly successful 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind . . . has there been a cultural critique as sweeping.”—George F. Will, The Washington Post“Provocative . . . worthy of your time.”—Edith Chapin, former Editor-in-Chief of NPRSilicon Valley has lost its way.Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West’s dominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has now eroded, with perilous repercussions.Today, the market rewards shallow engagement with the potential of technology. Engineers and founders build photo-sharing apps and marketing algorithms, unwittingly becoming vessels for the ambitions of others. This complacency has spread into academia, politics, and the boardroom. The result? An entire generation for whom the narrow-minded pursuit of the demands of a late capitalist economy has become their calling.In this groundbreaking treatise, Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska offer a searing critique of our collective abandonment of ambition, arguing that in order for the U.S. and its allies to retain their global edge—and preserve the freedoms we take for granted—the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our most urgent challenges, including the new arms race of artificial intelligence. The government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that has propelled Silicon Valley’s success.Above all, our leaders must reject intellectual fragility and preserve space for ideological confrontation. A willingness to risk the disapproval of the crowd, Karp and Zamiska contend, has everything to do with technological and economic outperformance.At once iconoclastic and rigorous, this book also lifts the veil on Palantir and its broader political project from the inside, offering a passionate call for the West to wake up to our new reality.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Alexander C. Karp is the co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies. He earned his doctorate in social theory from Goethe University in Germany and is a graduate of Haverford College and Stanford Law School.Nicholas W. Zamiska is head of corporate affairs and legal counsel to the office of the chief executive officer at Palantir Technologies. He is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.

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最佳賣點 : 這本由 Palantir 執行長撰寫的紐約時報暢銷榜之作《科技共和國》，是對西方科技現狀的深刻警示。書中剖析矽谷如何從改變世界的雄心，退化為開發社交軟體的平庸。這不只是科技評論，更是地緣政治的覺醒呼籲。在 AI 軍備競賽的關鍵時刻，我們必須重拾冒險精神與技術使命，才能捍衛自由世界的未來。

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