Know-It-Alls

From the former New York Times technology reporter, ';an enlightening breakdown of how Silicon Valley billionaires have shifted the popular discourse in their favor' (Kirkus)with a new introduction and fully updated chaptersHailed as ';a valuable addition' and a ';Top Tech Book' by Wired.com, The Know-It-Alls offers a prescient chronicle of the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force. Showcasing this new class of super geeks, former New York Times technology reporter Noam Cohen sketches ';finely researched portraits' (Nature) of the smart guys, including Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg, who fell in love with a radically individualistic, anti-government idealand then mainstreamed it.Now, in this completely revised and updated edition, published one year after DOGE came to town, Cohen shows how the know-it-alls came to Washington, providing a richly documented account of how their influence has metastasized, their wealth has exploded, and their technologies have frayed America's social and political fabric. The know-it-alls claim that they support Trump because the Democrats abandoned them; Cohen reveals that Trump gave them the political opening they'd been waiting for, all along.From the decisive influence of the pandemic, to the emergence of Elon Musk as a national political force, and the appearance of new characters and technologies, Cohen's ';unabashed critique' (Library Journal) is the essential guide to the real power players on today's political scene.