Our Technofounder Future

One of the striking facts of the 21st century is that J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories became blockbuster movies and pretentious TV soap operas, even as the primary use of his more famous symbols was to bless or brand the major technological corporations of our time. The latest is Durin, a mining company founded in 2024, which fittingly uses a dwarfish name. In 2023, Valar started building nuclear reactors, named for an angelic race. Back in 2017, Anduril was founded to create new weapons systems, labeled after a legendary sword. But before all these, in 2003, when The Lord of the Rings trilogy was completed, Palantir was founded to solve intelligence problems, whence the reference to a seeing stone.