Ask HN: Have the founders of Palentir and Anduril ever read Tolkien?
By nativeit · 2026-06-29 · 2 points · 3 comments
The Lord of the Rings famously includes very strong thematic critiques of industrialization and technological encroachment into everyday life.[0] Tolkien portrays the titular relics, as well as many of the other magical artifacts in Middle Earth like the palentiri, as tools of e…
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