Previously, when people were ruled by individual rulers, they were bound by an iron chain. But now in our time of globalism and high technology we all have become more informed and have gained more access to technological achievements and the most important thing to information. But unfortunately it also has a negative connotation in the form of invisible chains (as you wrote). We are dependent on much and we are easy to manipulate. The global network in "evil" hands is able to infest harm to human consciousness.
Imagine if the Internet disappears and electricity disappears ... we will return to the Stone Age. The young generation of the 21st century can not imagine its life without electricity and internet. It will be chaos :)