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  • Non-fiction
  • 2025
  • Mass Market

The hour of the predator

encounters with the autocrats and tech billionaires taking over the world

Giuliano da Empoli

Giuliano Da Empoli, Sam Taylor, (1970-)

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"Blending the internationally bestselling author's personal insight with startling historical comparisons to the days of Machiavelli and the Spanish conquest of Mexico, Giuliano Da Empoli's The Hour of the Predator is a timely and incisive examination of the shifting power dynamics in global politics, where traditional government institutions find themselves increasingly outmatched by technology tycoons and autocratic strongmen: geopolitical predators who shape the world through brute force, ceaseless deception, and chaotic disruption. Drawing on his experience as a political advisor to a former Italian Prime Minister, Da Empoli takes the reader on an eye-opening journey around the international political circuit -- from New York to Riyadh, and from the United Nations to Mohammed bin Salman's Ritz-Carlton -- and through the looking glass to a world of ruthless power struggles, where the tech lords already seem to inhabit another world and AI is already out of control"--

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Title Statement The hour of the predator: encounters with the autocrats and tech billionaires taking over the world / Giuliano Da Empoli ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
Author da Empoli, Giuliano
Additional Contributors Da Empoli, Giuliano
Taylor, Sam,1970-
Publication London: Pushkin Press,2025.
Edition Mass Market
Extent of Item 144 pages ;
ISBN 9781805680161 (paperback)
Other Number pr08108638
General Notes Originally published in French: Paris : Gallimard, 2025.
Translation of: L'heure des prédateurs.
Languages In English, translated from the French.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "Blending the internationally bestselling author's personal insight with startling historical comparisons to the days of Machiavelli and the Spanish conquest of Mexico, Giuliano Da Empoli's The Hour of the Predator is a timely and incisive examination of the shifting power dynamics in global politics, where traditional government institutions find themselves increasingly outmatched by technology tycoons and autocratic strongmen: geopolitical predators who shape the world through brute force, ceaseless deception, and chaotic disruption. Drawing on his experience as a political advisor to a former Italian Prime Minister, Da Empoli takes the reader on an eye-opening journey around the international political circuit -- from New York to Riyadh, and from the United Nations to Mohammed bin Salman's Ritz-Carlton -- and through the looking glass to a world of ruthless power struggles, where the tech lords already seem to inhabit another world and AI is already out of control"--
Subjects & Genres
By Topic Artificial intelligence--Social aspects
Authoritarianism
Geopolitics--21st century
Power (Social sciences)
Technology--Social aspects
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