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What is the Technological Republic?

Armando, Stewart and founder of The Nerve, Carole Cadwalladr, discuss the language and posture of the manifesto released by Palantir's Alex Karp last year.

We look at how Tech bros frame those who block their progress, their effusive language about their products, why they might reflect on linguistic parallels with George Orwell's works.

Armando also describes William Shatner's prose, in which he finds, having read his book, Tech War, that his sentences seem to run on, perhaps one or two clauses longer than a sentence should, which interested him, but also made for a challenging read, which in turn made it worthy of discussion on this week's programme.

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Sound editing: Chris Maclean

Production Coordinator: Giulia Mazzu

Executive Producer: Richard Morris

Recorded at the Sound Company

Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A 麻豆社 Studios production for Radio 4.