Our world is changing faster and faster. How are we reacting to it? Some celebrate the digital future with terrifying naivete, waiting for changes like weather events. Politicians don't seem to take this radical change serious. Others warn of the dictatorship of the Silicon Valley digital corporations, while others would prefer to hide their heads and return to the past. For his part, Richard David Precht outlines the image of a desirable future in the digital age. Is the end of meritocracy as we know it really a loss? For the German philosopher, the digital society offers the possibility that in the future we can live a fuller and more self-determined life. For that, we have to set the course in the present and systematically change our social system. The question is not how are we going to live?, but to decide how we want to live. A controversial and stimulating book that gets to the heart of the malaise in and of modernity.