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An insight into the political extremism of Silicon Valley, from Elon Musk to Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, and how it will shape the future of all of our lives. From the pursuit of potentially catastrophic artificial intelligence, to startups promoting longevity and promising billionaires eternal youth, to those cheering on the far right around the world, Silicon Valley's tech utopian dream has turned into a nightmare. The global innovative class holds the reins, but they can't bear to touch them. In Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Extremism of Silicon Valley, New York Times bestselling author Jacob Silverman leads us on a critical investigation into the extremism of Silicon Valley and the billionaires who increasingly run our lives, shape the global economy, and support Donald Trump. At the heart of this book is Elon Musk, but it's not just one man and his obsession with the 'woke mind virus', as Silverman reveals a network of tech and finance oligarchs who, emboldened by the years of zero interest rates, are now using their wealth to impose an increasingly extreme political agenda. Silverman moves between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Austin and Miami, New York, Washington, D.C., and various global capitals of technology, money, and political power, interviewing people who are actually living the consequences of the ongoing political revolution. It is a strange, sometimes frightening, world with a dark cynicism in it, where business leaders herald populist revolution while undermining what remaining checks on their influence. He presents