The biggest error we could commit is to face the ongoing digital revolution

divided into hermetically sealed compartments: the industrialists by

themselves, so too the trade unions, the musicians and actors on one side

and the journalists on the other, the athletes by themselves along with the

young bloggers who maintain that they do not need rules as if royalties

and copyrights were only important to some authors and not to others,

in addition to doctors, teachers at different levels and shopkeepers. It

is evident that the issue of the digital economy is not only a question

of culture but also one of politics in the sense of being able to formulate

effective policies that do not separate the collective interest from the

common good but are able to focus on the instruments necessary for its

achievement.

Equality, ethics and redistribution cannot be considered alternative

values. They remain the founding principles of a modern society. The

digital economy can be conceived as a compass so that we do not get

lost in exploring the new worlds that have emerged. We now face an

epoch-making revolution that is comparable than that of the discovery

of the wheel, sail or paper. Certainly it is bigger in terms of its

economic impact to those that brought about the industrial revolution:

from the steam engine to electricity, and from mechanization to the

first computers.