Publisher's Synopsis
Google is God dives deep into the policies and practices of Google. It highlights the many ways in which Google aims to be a God -like presence in the world. The book meticulously analyzes Google media to show how Google manipulates the minds of people through exploiting our deepest psychological desires and deficiencies in order to make itself the most powerful tech company in the world. Google is God uncovers how Google utilizes the discoveries of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis to prey upon unsuspecting people in the same way Christianity did centuries earlier, thereby making itself a God. The book chronicles the rise of technological development through sensory exploitation with beeps, clicks, taps, and visuals all the way to its complex algorithms that move people to live within Google's technological ecosystem all of the time. Can humans do anything to get out of the Google environment? Google is God explores all of these ideas!
