New Gods. How IT Giants Control Us

IT corporations successfully compete with states in terms of managing people. Our data is the new oil, and to effectively extract it, IT giants resort to numerous tricks. Do you not consider yourself to be dependent on social networks, messengers,... and video platforms? «New Gods» will open your eyes to the nature of your relationship with technology. German professor, psychologist Christian Montag shows in detail how the internet has become a machine for surveillance and manipulation for Silicon Valley corporations and the Communist Party of China, what aspects of human nature technological giants exploit for control over users — and what we can do to stop being slaves to the screen.