About the book: 2023 / IT corporations successfully compete with states when it comes to managing people. Our data is the new oil, and in order to effectively extract it, IT giants resort to numerous tricks. Do you consider yourself a person 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 and psychologist Christian Montag shows in detail how the Internet has become a machine of surveillance and manipulation for Silicon Valley corporations and the Chinese Communist Party, what properties of human nature technology giants use to control users - and what we can do to stop being slaves to the screen. In format PDF A4 publishing design preserved.