When Donald Trump was sworn in as US President for the second time, some of the most powerful men in the tech world had the best seats in the room.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg – it was a display of just how close Silicon Valley had aligned itself to the new US administration.
But within that world, journalist Gil Durán says, is a smaller, more radical group with a much bigger ambition: Get rid of democracy, and use technology to build a new order in its place, controlled by a wealthy elite. In his new book, The Nerd Reich, Durán traces how these once-fringe ideas have moved closer to the White House than ever before.
Today, Silicon Valley journalist and author Durán on the group he has dubbed the “Nerd Reich”, the ideas driving them, and how they became part of Trump’s political project.
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