What is this digital world 5, 10 or 15 years from now? The digital has already become so integrated into our worlds it has slipped out of our consciousness and embedded itself into how we think, plan and act. Devices will work even more without us thinking about them and that is a danger. Behind the scenes remain the power players with little transparency and can we trust them. How then can government find a balance between guiding and governing? Future digital infrastructure should feel like we treat our ‘home’, where you have a key through which you enter the door. And crucially it is ‘your key’. We realise that “government light” has not served us well and not led us to where we need to be. Its consequences with corporations in charge have in part been catastrophic. This new world requires government and corporations to have a completely different relationship. “Government Light” has not led us where we need to be with corporations leading governments by the nose. That needs to stop – our challenge is to empower governments to institute a ‘golden age’ of the digital commons and the common good.