IT corporations successfully compete with governments in terms of people management. Our data is new oil, and in order to efficiently extract it, IT giants go 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, psychologist Christian Montag shows in detail how the Internet has become a surveillance and manipulation machine for corporations in Silicon Valley and the Communist Party of China, what properties of human nature tech giants use to control users - and what we can do to stop being slaves to the screen.