What is the future of the humanities? In recent years, signs of disaffection with humanist culture have multiplied. In this gloomy context, the development of digital humanities seems to be a lifeline for disciplines that would otherwise be doomed to disappear. However, reinventing the humanities through the digital means facing three important challenges: its relationship with technology, its relationship with politics and, finally, with science itself. The digital humanities are widely criticized: for some they are a farce, for others an extraordinary threat. But if there is something that cannot be denied, it is its ability to raise questions relevant to the different disciplines of the human and social sciences. Thinking about the place that the humanities should occupy in our world implies redefining their social and epistemic contract. They are valuable opportunities as long as they do not distort the humanistic specificity of the research practices to which they are applied.