A chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the dystopian ambition of the technocrats at its center, and offering a road map to resistance.
Chances are you already know some random things about the Silicon Valley technology billionaires ... Yet in the fractured attention economy in which we all now reside, it’s easy to know these disparate facts and still have only a vague understanding of their larger significance. It is the mastery of such diverse particulars that makes Gil Durán’s new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, so valuable ... A haunting picture of the political project pursued and abetted by a confederacy of Silicon Valley elites.
There’s not a lot of original reporting in The Nerd Reich, but Durán assembles relevant info from scores of journalists and scholars, as well as providing a valuable dive into the fringy sources for some of the Valley’s most menacing ideas ... A much-needed aid in a very necessary task: tearing down the golden calf Americans have built in Palo Alto before it devours us all.
Stunning ... Gloriously titled ... Thoughtful, well researched and a vigorous call to act before our collective humanity is sacrificed to increasing the vast wealth of tech millionaires and billionaires.
