IT corporations successfully compete with governments when it comes to managing people. Our data is the new oil, and to extract it efficiently, IT giants resort to numerous tricks. Do you consider yourself dependent on social media, instant messaging, and video platforms? 'New Gods' will open your eyes to the nature of your relationship with technology. German professor and psychologist Christian Montag details how the internet has become a surveillance and manipulation machine for Silicon Valley corporations and the Chinese Communist Party, what human traits tech giants exploit to control users—and what we can do to stop being slaves to the screen.

Author: Christian Montag