The triumph of digital technology continues unabated, reaching into ever new areas of life. New technologies are changing the world: What does digitalization mean for the law? This is the central question the author explores. The author identifies five characteristics of cultural digitalization: boundarylessness, a flood of images, immateriality, timelessness, and networking. He contrasts these with the law and legal thinking. It becomes clear that two worlds are colliding that could hardly be more different. The law is characterized more by boundaries, skepticism towards images, fixed embodiment, precise time determination, and causal, sequential thought processes and chains of argument. The confrontation with digitalization profoundly changes the law. Overall, the law becomes less clear. And equally important: it becomes re.