PRODIGAL — THE PODCAST / Episode 13:The Nerd Reich: The Book, the Blueprint, and the Billionaires Building an Exit From Democracy
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The Nerd Reich: The Book, the Blueprint, and the Billionaires Building an Exit From Democracy
Before he left office, a sitting president warned that Silicon Valley's "tech-industrial complex" had become radicalized. Journalist Gil Duran — a former newsroom editor and communications director for Kamala Harris, Governor Jerry Brown, and Senator Dianne Feinstein — spent years documenting exactly what that meant, and this year put it in a book: "The Nerd Reich." Don and Daysha pull the whole blueprint out into the open: a 1997 book that predicted democracy's collapse, the…
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