The digital age is neither disruptive nor revolutionary; rather, it continues the logic and fundamental conflicts of modernity since the 18th century and the Enlightenment. At the same time, these conflicts are being transferred to every household and the everyday lives of people on a global scale more than ever before. Wolfgang Schmale contextualizes the digital age within modernity, highlighting its positive, negative, and contradictory aspects. The concept of digital human(itar)ism provides guidance in this context. The opportunity to leverage the global digitality that characterizes the digital age for a more humane society and to achieve decoloniality has not yet been definitively lost. Schmale ventures into challenging territory with his historically critical analysis of the digital age, demonstrating how the AI-driven digitization of the living environment can be transformed into a controlled process where human dignity serves as the most important measure.