Essay | Summer 2025
Does Marriage Have a Future?
From the Industrial Revolution to the pill to AI girlfriends, technology is unbundling what used to be marriage’s package deal.
Debora L. Spar
Debora L. Spar is professor of business administration and senior associate dean for business and global society at Harvard Business School. She is the author of Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020) and The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception (Harvard Business Review Press, 2006), among other books.
In The New Atlantis