The Technological Republic
A Palantir manifesto: technology should return to serious national problems, not consumer toys.
Karp’s argument is that the West’s most capable engineers drifted into building consumer conveniences while ceding the hard problems — defense, state capacity, institutional strength — to no one. It is a call for technology to re-enter the arena of serious national power, and the clearest statement of the “build for the state” pole of the sovereignty debate.