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The Technological Republic: What Does Silicon Valley Owe America?
The Technological Republic begins with a question about obligation: what does an engineer owe the society that made the engineer possible? Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska argue that Silicon Valley has drifted away from ambitious public problems and toward advertising, entertainment and consumer convenience — abandoning an older partnership between technological talent, industry and the American state.The book traces technology’s historical relationship with government and national power, arguing that many defining achievements of the twentieth century emerged when engineers…
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