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Information Technology serves as the operating system of our society. This change has happened over the last 30 \u2013 40 years, and the result should be compared with our historic views and expectations. At the same time, despite the enormous success of our discipline, it has serious shortcomings. I discuss some of them, especially the issue of online platforms, and describe a positive \u201canswer\u201d: Digital Humanism. This approach does not only describe and analyze the man \u2013 machine relationship, but also underlines the importance of humans in this development: we have to interfere \u2013 technology is not god given. 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