by Gil Durán
First published 2026
Silicon Valley claims it moves fast and breaks things for innovation. Gil Durán reveals the real agenda: a systematic campaign to replace elected governments with corporate control. Drawing on his insider political experience and fresh investigations, Durán tracks this tech-authoritarian ideology from its philosophical origins in The Sovereign Individual to its current global influence. He profiles the movement's key figures including Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan, and Elon Musk, showing how their promise of technological freedom has evolved into digital feudalism. The author examines their tools of transformation: cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and social media algorithms. From San Francisco's manipulated elections and covert billionaire schemes to federal politics, Durán documents how the world's wealthiest tech leaders construct a new political order. This book provides both hidden history and urgent warning about democracy's quiet dismantling through code and capital rather than traditional force. Durán argues readers still have time to resist if they act immediately.
Genres: dystopia, business, economics, 21st-century, artificial-intelligence, current-affairs, activism, algorithms
Vibes: thought-provoking, urgent-warning
Tropes: hidden-agenda, insider-perspective, resistance
Setting: San Francisco, Silicon Valley
Period: 21st-century
352 pages · Hardcover · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster