In her dynamic Epilogue, Perlroth provides a comprehensive summary of her main points and delivers a sharp call to action, stressing her own ongoing efforts to help improve the current state of American cybersecurity. By suddenly adopting a much more decisive and authoritative tone and making frequent use of imperative statements, she adds force to her arguments and capitalizes on the extensive examples that she has already provided of her own expertise and authority on these topics. Notably, her depiction of current and near-future events is bleak at best, but she also recommends a series of actionable suggestions to improve the situation. Although the Epilogue contains more editorializing than her more objective journalistic approach in earlier sections, the text’s conclusion nonetheless retains Perlroth’s customary clarity and sincerity. Now that the essence of her narrative has been delivered, she has the latitude to provide her undiluted opinions. This final section function as the conclusion to an essay, building on the information and themes presented in the main body and proposing a way forward from the endpoint of the current process.

While Perlroth does include a wealth of varied data to support her arguments, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is at heart a very Americentric book, and it is designed to appeal to the general perspective of United States citizens. While this stylistic choice may alienate Perlroth’s global audience, it aligns with the target demographic of the newspaper for which she has worked for over a decade. By adopting this specific focus, she also restricts the scope of the book to a more manageable level, gaining the freedom to write with depth as well as breadth.

Most importantly, this final section focuses primarily on providing logical ways for the average person to take ownership of The Responsibility to Safeguard Digital Infrastructure. The Epilogue is a call to action above all else, ending with the impactful, all-caps assertion that “SOMEONE SHOULD DO SOMETHING” (406). The vagueness of this statement conveys Perlroth’s essential frustration with the issues at hand and implies that anyone who is capable of “doing something” to improve the situation should take action, even at the individual level.