Masters of Exit

Inside Silicon Valley’s Quest to Reinvent the World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

232 kr

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Beskrivning

If you want to understand what Silicon Valley billionaires are seeking to achieve, and what the world of the future might look like if they have their way, then this book will prove required reading. If you think that world won’t come to pass, think again.Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Curtis Yarvin, Balaji Srinivasan. All Silicon Valley movers and shakers. All men with one shared ideal: to deploy cutting-edge technology to enable them to exit the world as it is and create new worlds as they want them to be.Bloomberg journalist Gian Volpicelli’s white-knuckle ride of a book takes us through some of the more bizarre early manifestations of exit tech – such as autonomous ocean platforms – to a contemporary world where tech CEOs fancy themselves monarchs of ‘charter’ cities in Singapore, Honduras and Montenegro, and where politicians who believe in their precepts are trying to transform entire countries into startups.En route, he explores the intellectual root of 'Exit Tech', explains why true believers have so little faith in existing nation states and liberal democracy (hence Curtis Yarvin’s RAGE (Retire All Government Employees) and Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency)), and examines the core elements of their brave new world: cryptocurrency, space travel, life extension and AI among them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-04-15
Mått:156 x 240 x 31 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Cornerstone
ISBN:9781529155518

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Gian M. Volpicelli is a journalist covering technology for Bloomberg News in Brussels. Born in Rome and educated in Italy and the UK, he was previously an editor and senior writer for WIRED magazine and a tech policy reporter for POLITICO. Over his career he has investigated topics including dark web assassination markets, Bitcoin mining, killer drones and artificial intelligence regulation. His first book, Cryptocurrency, tracking the history and ideas behind digital money, was published in 2021 by Penguin Random House.