New Gods: How IT Giants Rule Us

IT corporations successfully compete with states when it comes to managing people. Our data is the new oil, and to extract it effectively, IT giants resort to numerous tricks. Do you consider yourself dependent on social networks, instant 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 of surveillance and manipulation for Silicon Valley corporations and the Communist Party of China, what properties of human nature are used by technology giants to control users - and what we can do to stop being slaves to the screen.