The Nerd Reich is a 2026 non-fiction book by American journalist Gil Durán, who argues that some venture capitalists in Silicon Valley use technologies such as cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence to undermine democracy in the United States in an attempt to establish a new form of governance resembling a corporate dictatorship. To mitigate these threats, Durán suggests banning crypto, identifying network state proposals as anti-government extremism, breaking up tech monopolies, and regulating AI.