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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Robotics •
Internet •
Science Fiction •
Manual Competence •
Social Media •
Data Science •
Biotechnology •
History of Technology •
All

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Robert Bellafiore

Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins

The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win the war by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.

Robert Bellafiore

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Charles C. Mann

What Keeps the Lights On

If you think the power system must run itself by now, you’re wrong. Behind every nicely toasted bagel is a vast network of generators, transformers, computers, wires — and, yes, people in backrooms sweating to make sure the juice flows exactly where, and when, it needs to go. What could possibly go wrong?

From: How the System Works

Charles C. Mann

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Leah Libresco Sargeant

Families are not about moving fast and breaking things

A new alliance between tech and the family?

From: A New Alliance Between Tech and the Family?

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Patrick J. Deneen

We need a pro-family state, not an anti-state family

A new alliance between tech and the family?

From: A New Alliance Between Tech and the Family?

Patrick J. Deneen

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Nadia Asparouhova

How Silicon Valley can prove it is pro-family

A new alliance between tech and the family?

From: A New Alliance Between Tech and the Family?

Nadia Asparouhova

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Christine Rosen

Look at what technologists do, not what they say

A new alliance between tech and the family?

From: A New Alliance Between Tech and the Family?

Christine Rosen

Essay | Summer 2025

Summer 2025

  • Debora L. Spar
  • Aryanna Garber

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 and Aryanna Garber

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

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