IT corporations are successfully competing with states in managing people. Our data is the new oil, and to extract it effectively, IT giants resort to numerous tricks.

Do you not consider yourself dependent on social networks, messengers, and video platforms? "New Gods" will open your eyes to the nature of your relationship with technology. German professor and psychologist Christian Montag provides a detailed account of how the internet has become a tool for surveillance and manipulation for Silicon Valley corporations and the Chinese Communist Party. He explains which aspects of human nature technological giants exploit to control users and what we can do to stop being slaves to the screen.