Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
/2023/jun/03/buff-billionaires-jeff-bezos-mark-zuckerberg-body-image. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT doomsday-ready concrete bunker: Mark O’Connell, “Why Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Prepping for the Apocalypse in New Zealand,” Guardian, February 15, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why
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Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
might compete with the US dollar. But as venture capitalists and top tech executives lined up behind Trump, his opinions shifted. Perhaps one of the Silicon Valley billionaires now bankrolling his campaign had a Jeffrey Yass-style conversation with him, this time about the electoral value of pandering to crypto voters. Trump emerged
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Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
turned out to be too swampy to hold. It took two decades for the hippies to become yuppies; three for the simple-lifers to become Silicon Valley billionaires; four for ‘imagine there’s no countries’ to become the policy of the WEF and the WTO. Now everything is hanging out everywhere. The counter
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words
, 2016, 2021, https:// www .vanityfair .com /news /2016 /08 /peter -thiel -wants -to -inject -himself -with -young -peoples -blood. 5 uploading their minds : Alexandra Richards, “Silicon Valley billionaire pays company thousands ‘to be killed and have his brain digitally preserved forever,’ ” Evening Standard , March 15, 2018, https:// www .standard .co .uk /news /world
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/silicon -valley -billionaire -pays -company -thousands -to -kill -him -and -preserve -his -brain -forever -a3790871 .html. 8 “fairer” phones : Bas Van Abel, interview with Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human
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-future -we -live -in. 150 “It’s a fine line” : Max Chafkin, QAnon Anonymous podcast, December 10, 2021. 150 “cognitive elite” : Mark O’Connell, “Why Silicon Valley Billionaires Are Prepping for the Apocalypse in New Zealand,” Guardian , February 15, 2018, https:// www .theguardian .com /news /2018 /feb /15 /why
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Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
by Robert W. McChesney · 5 Mar 2013 · 476pp · 125,219 words
, “Greed Prevents Good,” Room for Debate section, NY Times.com, Mar. 16, 2012. 12. George Packer, “No Death, No Taxes: The Libertarian Futurism of a Silicon Valley Billionaire,” New Yorker, Nov. 28, 2011. 13. The class basis of capitalism is nowhere to be found in the catechism because the emphasis is on merchants
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
by Ingrid Robeyns · 16 Jan 2024 · 327pp · 110,234 words
from the Twentieth Century (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017). 7. Mark O’Connell, “Why Silicon Valley Billionaires are Prepping for the Apocalypse in New Zealand,” Guardian, February 15, 2018, theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand. 8. The situation described is as of early
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin · 14 Sep 2021 · 524pp · 130,909 words
two weeks later, when Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times published an interview with Denton, who told him that he suspected that a Silicon Valley billionaire had been funding the Gawker lawsuits. Sorkin’s article may have pushed one of Thiel’s confidants to finally leak that he was behind it
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words.” The following week, Thiel got a final push. The Advocate, the queer newsmagazine, published an essay criticizing his endorsement of Trump. “Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire who made news this summer for endorsing Donald Trump at the Republican convention, is a man who has sex with other men,” Jim Downs, an
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
by Chrystia Freeland · 11 Oct 2012 · 481pp · 120,693 words
to prosper unrestrained by the grasping of the 99 percent, are the brainchild of Milton Friedman’s grandson and are being funded in part by Silicon Valley billionaire and libertarian Peter Thiel. Not all plutocrats want to escape to a Seastead. Paul Martin and Ernesto Zedillo are members in good standing of the
The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon!
by Joseph N. Pelton · 5 Nov 2016 · 321pp · 89,109 words
Schwieckart and Ed Lu have said their project is equivalent in cost to that of an Interstate highway exchange. They have pled their case to Silicon Valley billionaires with some success. Their sales pitch is along the following lines: If NASA won’t make defending our planet a top priority, then help us
The New Class Conflict
by Joel Kotkin · 31 Aug 2014 · 362pp · 83,464 words
Journal, February 24, 2014. 65. Jessica Guynn, “Silicon Valley Staff-Poaching Suit Is Granted Class-Action Status,” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2013; Dean Baker, “Silicon Valley Billionaires Believe in the Free Market, as Long as They Benefit,” Guardian, February 3, 2014; David Streitfeld, “Engineers Allege Hiring Collusion in Silicon Valley,” New York
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas · 27 Aug 2018 · 296pp · 98,018 words
The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, the Americas Cup, Twice
by Julian Guthrie · 31 Mar 2014 · 428pp · 138,235 words
The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors
by Spencer Jakab · 1 Feb 2022 · 420pp · 94,064 words
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
by Corey Pein · 23 Apr 2018 · 282pp · 81,873 words
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late
by Michael Ellsberg · 15 Jan 2011 · 362pp · 99,063 words
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
by Adam Becker · 14 Jun 2025 · 381pp · 119,533 words
The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here
by Nicole Kobie · 3 Jul 2024 · 348pp · 119,358 words
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
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Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
by Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger · 19 Oct 2014 · 459pp · 140,010 words
The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition
by Jonathan Tepper · 20 Nov 2018 · 417pp · 97,577 words
Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
by Kevin Davies · 5 Oct 2020 · 741pp · 164,057 words
Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
by Ben Smith · 2 May 2023
Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
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Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
by Victor Davis Hanson · 15 Nov 2021 · 458pp · 132,912 words
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
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Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
by Rachel Sherman · 21 Aug 2017 · 360pp · 113,429 words
Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
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The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age
by Roger Bootle · 4 Sep 2019 · 374pp · 111,284 words
The Price of Life: In Search of What We're Worth and Who Decides
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Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
by William Davies · 26 Feb 2019 · 349pp · 98,868 words
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
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Team Human
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A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth
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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World
by Cade Metz · 15 Mar 2021 · 414pp · 109,622 words
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
by Mark O'Connell · 28 Feb 2017 · 252pp · 79,452 words
Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination
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Artificial Whiteness
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Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire: My Unlikely Escape From Corporate America
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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
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The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
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When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
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What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
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100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family And
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Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy
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Left Behind
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All the Money in the World
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