Palantir Rising: War in the Garden of Google

• In the sequel to our Wintel Wars article, we offer the ultimate deep dive into the tectonic shifts happening in the tech industry, giving unparalleled context to Karp's cryptic musings. • We lay out how Google and Facebook gradually created privatized versions of secretive DARPA programs, and why Palantir and Apple are leading a push for privacy as industry tensions ignite. • We discuss how Palantir threatens the current paradigm with software for a decentralized alternative. Europe's GAIA-X offers significant upside potential as Palantir seeks a new European hub in Switzerland. • While the last decade focused on the consumer internet, the Palantir+IBM partnership is a harbinger of how the next decade will be shaped by software platforms for the industrial internet. • Calls for the US government to provide R&D funding for the technology sector provide an additional catalyst. These sentiments were recently echoed by In-Q-Tel employees writing for a Council on Foreign Relations publication. Data Determinism ...set the stage for powerful internet platforms such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook to emerge. The power of these businesses to leverage the ecosystem built by Microsoft, Apple, and the telecom industry propelled them with growth unlike anything else in history. As the digital revolution reached its inflection point, data became the new oil. This data powers modern society, a quantification of the real world that exists as digital information inside computers and networks. It is used to create artificial intelligence. What we see as digital photos, posts, or documents are complex collections of numbers that can be mathematically analyzed. For companies whose business models are built on refining and selling consumer data, irresponsibly extracting this data has led to a dangerous erosion of privacy that is this new era’s equivalent of an ecological crisis.

• In the sequel to our Wintel Wars article, we offer the ultimate deep dive into the tectonic shifts happening in the tech industry, giving unparalleled context to Karp's cryptic musings. • We lay out how Google and Facebook gradually created privatized versions of secretive DARPA programs, and why Palantir and Apple are leading a push for privacy as industry tensions ignite. • We discuss how Palantir threatens the current paradigm with software for a decentralized alternative. Europe's GAIA-X offers significant upside potential as Palantir seeks a new European hub in Switzerland. • While the last decade focused on the consumer internet, the Palantir+IBM partnership is a harbinger of how the next decade will be shaped by software platforms for the industrial internet. • Calls for the US government to provide R&D funding for the technology sector provide an additional catalyst. These sentiments were recently echoed by In-Q-Tel employees writing for a Council on Foreign Relations publication. Photo by DKosig/E+ via Getty Images Introduction: Data Determinism The dominance of Wintel (see our previous article) standardized the computer industry and set the stage for powerful internet platforms such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook to emerge. The power of these businesses to leverage the ecosystem built by Microsoft, Apple, and the telecom industry propelled them with growth unlike anything else in history. With a combined market value of $7.5 trillion, we can see that the dotcom bubble was merely a brief speculative fever ahead of the steady rise of corporations that now dominate our daily lives. As the digital revolution reached its inflection point, data became the new oil. This data powers modern society, a quantification of the real world that exists as digital information inside computers and networks. It is used to create artificial intelligence. What we see as digital photos, posts, or documents are complex collections of numbers that can be mathematically analyzed. For companies whose business models are built on refining and selling consumer data, irresponsibly extracting this data has led to a dangerous erosion of privacy that is this new era’s equivalent of an ecological crisis.

Darpa

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik 1 in 1957. By collaborating with academia, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, often beyond immediate U.S. military requirements.

I assume that is the DARPA they are referring to?

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In the sequel to our Wintel Wars article, we offer the ultimate deep dive into the tectonic shifts happening in the tech industry, giving unparalleled context to Karp's cryptic musings.

• We lay out how Google and Facebook gradually created privatized versions of secretive DARPA programs, and why Palantir and Apple are leading a push for privacy as industry tensions ignite.
• We discuss how Palantir threatens the current paradigm with software for a decentralized alternative. Europe's GAIA-X offers significant upside potential as Palantir seeks a new European hub in Switzerland.
• While the last decade focused on the consumer internet, the Palantir+IBM partnership is a harbinger of how the next decade will be shaped by software platforms for the industrial internet.
• Calls for the US government to provide R&D funding for the technology sector provide an additional catalyst. These sentiments were recently echoed by In-Q-Tel employees writing for a Council on Foreign Relations publication. Photo by DKosig/E+ via Getty Images Introduction:

Data Determinism The dominance of Wintel (see our previous article) standardized the computer industry and set the stage for powerful internet platforms such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook to emerge. The power of these businesses to leverage the ecosystem built by Microsoft, Apple, and the telecom industry propelled them with growth unlike anything else in history.

With a combined market value of $7.5 trillion, we can see that the dotcom bubble was merely a brief speculative fever ahead of the steady rise of corporations that now dominate our daily lives. As the digital revolution reached its inflection point, data became the new oil. This data powers modern society, a quantification of the real world that exists as digital information inside computers and networks. It is used to create artificial intelligence. What we see as digital photos, posts, or documents are complex collections of numbers that can be mathematically analyzed.

For companies whose business models are built on refining and selling consumer data, irresponsibly extracting this data has led to a dangerous erosion of privacy that is this new era’s equivalent of an ecological crisis.

Palantir Rising: War In The Garden Of Google

Summary

In the sequel to our Wintel Wars article, we offer the ultimate deep dive into the tectonic shifts happening in the tech industry, giving unparalleled context to Karp's cryptic musings.
We lay out how Google and Facebook gradually created privatized versions of secretive DARPA programs, and why Palantir and Apple are leading a push for privacy as industry tensions ignite.
We discuss how Palantir threatens the current paradigm with software for a decentralized alternative. Europe's GAIA-X offers significant upside potential as Palantir seeks a new European hub in Switzerland.
While the last decade focused on the consumer internet, the Palantir+IBM partnership is a harbinger of how the next decade will be shaped by software platforms for the industrial internet.
Calls for the US government to provide R&D funding for the technology sector provide an additional catalyst. These sentiments were recently echoed by In-Q-Tel employees writing for a Council on Foreign Relations publication.

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