WASHINGTON: A new doctrine is quietly reshaping America’s technology-industrial complex, recasting Silicon Valley from a playground of consumer apps into an arsenal of strategic hardware.
Dubbed “patriotic tech”, the movement argues that technology firms have a moral and national duty to align with the state — particularly in its intensifying rivalry with China.
At the centre of its latest, most controversial iteration are Indian-American entrepreneur Sankaet Pathak and US President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump, whose venture, Foundation Future Industries, has vaulted into prominence with a Pentagon-backed push into battlefield robotics.
