A searing insight into the political radicalization of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, JD Vance and
Donald Trump, and how it will affect the future of all our lives.
From the pursuit of potentially apocalyptic artificial intelligence to life-extension start-ups that promise billionaires
eternal youth and those who encourage the political far right around the world, the Silicon Valley techno-utopian
dream has curdled. The global innovator class has the world in their hands, but they can't stand the touch.
In Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, New York Times bestselling author
Jacob Silverman leads us on a critical investigation into the radicalization of Silicon Valley and the billionaires that
increasingly run our lives, shape the global economy, and support Donald Trump.
At the center of this book lies Elon Musk, but this is about more than just one man and his obsession with the "woke
mind virus," as Silverman reveals a network of tech and finance oligarchs, emboldened by the zero-interest rate years,
now using their wealth to exert an increasingly radical political program.
Transiting San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Austin and Miami, New York, Washington DC, and various global capitals
of tech, finance, and political power, Silverman talks to the people who are already living with the real-life
consequences of the political revolution underway. It's a bizarre, sometimes frightening, darkly humorous world where
moguls preach populist revolt while dismantling the few remaining checks on their influence.