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The volume’s purpose is to provide an overview; the authors are willing to take into account the whole spectrum of digitization-related phenomena, which allows them to offer a remarkable summary. On the other hand, some points are necessarily fleeting. In particular, the book closes by discussing the cultural and political roots of the digital, a topic that certainly requires deeper analysis. For example, it would be useful to integrate the global overview with a closer look at diversification and contradiction, starting from the fracture of the cultural roots of the digital between europe and North America, where the active influences are often radically different. Such a perspective, among other things, would allow one to look at the story told here not as a complex yet still unified development, but rather as a long intertwinement of innovation instances, only some of which are destined for success.