A collection of 17 posts
Alex Karp and Nicholas Zamiska have written a book about how the US can regain its technological and military edge. But The Technological Republic is really about something deeper: how America inherited Europe’s post-World War II trauma and turned it into a philosophy of defeat.
‘The Technological Republic’ is a searching indictment of a culture that has lost sight of its metaphysical horizons and now seeks an escape from history.
Liberal democracies need to restore a climate of entrepreneurial opportunity and competition.
By going to war against "misinformation" governments are merely diverting finite resources from addressing real harm to people and property, which purportedly justifies the panic in the first place.
A review of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley. (August 2022)
A review of ‘After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul,’ by Tripp Mickle (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2022).
We tend to overestimate a technology’s abilities in the near term, and massively underestimate what it can do in the long term.
Tech giants were slow to confront the regrettable purposes to which their platforms and systems were being put, preferring to single-mindedly pursue growth and profits.
In a 2018 report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), China ranked first in mathematical proficiency among 15-year-olds, while the United States was in 25th place.
If we want to live in a world where we can buy things and subscribe to media and earn money and publish our thoughts without the fear of being spied on, then we are going to need a digital form of cash. Bitcoin is the foundation for that system.
Some might claim that electric power is far more of a necessity that social media access.
I took it as a good sign that by the time I got back to our family brunch all I could talk about was what I’d read about this kid (Palmer Luckey) and his incredible company (Oculus).
Chang shows no awareness that gender parity is the exception not the rule in the US workplace.
What can we do about China’s potential future ability to harm American politicians through influencing Internet companies that operate in both China and the United States?