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This final chapter examines the implications of massively increased computational and data resources for social research methods, including the impact on its established practices and future of its disciplines. In it, Savage returns to themes that he and his co-author, Burrows, first raised in their subsequently much-cited paper, ‘On the coming crisis of empirical sociology’ (Savage and Burrows, 2007). His aim, in part, is to ground expectations of the changes in social research that may follow from digital innovations and, not least, to question their inevitability. As the contributions of the authors of the chapters in this volume convincingly demonstrate, the future of digital sociology is contested: they all agree that the discipline is undergoing a sustained period of innovation, but its future direction is unknown. Together, they make a powerful case for Savage’s assertion that the future of digital sociology is not a given, but lies in the hands of current and subsequent generations of practitioners.