Great article, and it's given me a lot to chew on since I just finished reading Abundance two nights ago and there's a great degree of thematic overlap in what you've identified in terms of incentives, private-public partnership, and diffusion. In a sense, I think America 100 years ago culturally understood the importance of balance between frontier innovation and diffusion, or at least, understood that both were needed. But like a heavyweight falling in love with his knockout power over the ring tactics that served him well as a younger boxer, that balance has been forgotten.
I have an obvious bias here since I've worked there for fourteen years, but I do actually think the Palantir business model oddly has more in common with the approach to technology of China than it does with our counterparts in consumer technology in America.
Great article, and it's given me a lot to chew on since I just finished reading Abundance two nights ago and there's a great degree of thematic overlap in what you've identified in terms of incentives, private-public partnership, and diffusion. In a sense, I think America 100 years ago culturally understood the importance of balance between frontier innovation and diffusion, or at least, understood that both were needed. But like a heavyweight falling in love with his knockout power over the ring tactics that served him well as a younger boxer, that balance has been forgotten.
I have an obvious bias here since I've worked there for fourteen years, but I do actually think the Palantir business model oddly has more in common with the approach to technology of China than it does with our counterparts in consumer technology in America.