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The Age of Invisible Control examines how modern life is shaped by designs that appear convenient, neutral, or efficient, but often guide human behavior before real choice begins. Through twenty real-world cases across technology, workplaces, markets, schools, platforms, public systems, and everyday digital life, Eyasu Desalegne Beyene shows how power now moves through interfaces, metrics, defaults, algorithms, and hidden rules.

This book is not an argument against technology. It is an argument for seeing clearly.

From dark patterns and algorithmic feeds to worker surveillance, automated eligibility systems, subscription traps, child safety defaults, and digital scoring, this book reveals how ordinary systems can quietly limit our options, shape our attention, and shift the burden onto the people least able to contest them.

The goal is simple:

See the design.
Question the rules.
Take control back.

This item is Non-Returnable

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9798196082863
  • ISBN-10: 9798196082863
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publish Date: May 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.67 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.95 pounds
  • Page Count: 320

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