• About
  • Journal
  • Projects
  • Books
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Search
  • Sign in

About Us

Contact

Praise

Donate

About Us
Contact
Praise
Donate
About
Journal
Projects
Books
Exhausted by science and tech debates that go nowhere?
Buy Back Issues
print + digital
$34
digital
$24
Subscribe Today
Renew Existing Subscription Buy Back Issues
Subscribe
The New Atlantis is building a culture in which science and technology work for, not on, human beings.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how a magazine works

amount to donate

$50 $100 $250
Donate
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how a magazine works
Donate
Search
Sign in to access subscriber-only content and to manage your account

Forgot Password?

Sign In
?>

Staying Human

Advancing science and medicine for, not on, human beings

Read the Editors’ Introduction
End of Life •
Eugenics •
Reproductive Technology •
Enhancement •
Beginning of Life •
Human Dignity •
Medicine •
Transhumanism •
All

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Ronald W. Dworkin

The Doctor as Priest

Why anesthesiologists need more than reason to talk patients out of the fear of going under

Ronald W. Dworkin

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Charles T. Rubin

The Real City of the Future

From megastructures in the Arabian Desert to urban decay close to home, we are pulled between utopian and dystopian visions of the modern city. Sci-fi novelist William Gibson offers a more likely scenario.

Charles T. Rubin

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • David Polansky

What’s the Difference Between Hearing Aids and Puberty Blockers?

“We aren’t defective, just different” was the 1990s rallying cry of deaf activists who rejected medical fixes. Why have transgender activists argued that only medical tech can make them who they really are?

David Polansky

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

We Must Steward, Not Subjugate Nor Worship AI

How to act rightly in response

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

AI Will Seem to Be Alive

How to judge prudently what kinds of beings they will be

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

Gaining Situational Awareness About the Coming Artificial General Intelligence

How to see clearly what lies ahead

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brian J. A. Boyd

Will AI Be Alive?

What lies ahead and how to face it well

Brian J. A. Boyd

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Brad Littlejohn
  • Clare Morell
  • Emma Waters

Stop Hacking Humans

From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.

Brad Littlejohn, Clare Morell, Emma Waters

Essay | Winter 2025

Winter 2025

  • Alexander Raikin

A Pattern of Noncompliance

Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations — and not referred a single case to law enforcement, say leaked documents.

Alexander Raikin

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Jade Toth

A whole-of-patient approach to medicine

From: What We Should Build

Jade Toth

12345NEXTLAST

A Journal of Technology & Society

Subscribe

|

Back Issues

|

Blogs

|

About

|

Contributors

|

Contact

|

Donate

Published by The Center for the Study of Technology and Society

© 2025 The New Atlantis

Privacy Policy