Prisoners of Technology: How Systems, Algorithms, and Machines Shape Everything We Think, Do, and Become

By Nathaniel Sally

You think you chose what to watch last night. You didn't. You think you decided what news to believe. You didn't. You think you control your phone. It controls you.

We were told technology would set us free, free to connect, to learn, to create, to speak. And in many ways, it has. But something else happened along the way. Quietly, invisibly, without a single law being passed or a single vote being cast, the systems we built began to shape us back. Our choices were curated. Our attention was sold. Our identities were built not from the inside out, but from the outside in, sculpted by algorithms that know us better than we know ourselves.

Prisoners of Technology is the book that names what millions of people already feel but cannot quite explain: that invisible walls have been built around the way we think, the way we vote, the way we love, the way we see the world and that these walls are not made of steel or stone, but of code, data, and design.

Drawing on sociology, behavioural science, digital geopolitics, and the stories of real people caught inside these systems, Nathaniel Sally takes readers on an urgent, eye-opening journey through the architecture of the modern digital world. From the engineers in Silicon Valley who deliberately designed apps to be impossible to put down, to the governments building digital borders that rival any physical wall; from the AI systems quietly deciding who gets a job, a loan, or a second chance, to the teenage girl whose sense of self quietly collapsed under the weight of a like button, this book reveals the human cost of a world run by machines.
This is not a book about being anti-technology. It is a book about being awake because the first step to freedom is understanding the cage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWR9M8GN
• ISBN13: 9798255786060
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"