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Why science and tech writing is not up to this moment: a note from the editor

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 | Winter 2026

Winter 2026

  • Clare Coffey

Where’s the Thrill in the Enhanced Games?

The new doped Olympics are not about what we can do but what tech titans can do to us.

Clare Coffey

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 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 | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Emma Waters

Taming IVF’s Wild West

Real regulation is long overdue. But consumer protection is not enough.

Emma Waters

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Abigail Anthony

Golden Eggs

IVF parents shop for good stock at the Ivy Leagues.

Abigail Anthony

Essay | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Leah Libresco Sargeant

Embryos as Schrödinger’s Persons

The Alabama IVF ruling reveals peculiar entities that are neither people nor property until we need them to be.

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Garth Brown

Oiling the Chicken Machine

Queasy about lab-grown meat? Too bad — you’ve pretty much been eating it for decades.

Garth Brown

Editorial | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • The Editors of The New Atlantis

Take No for an Answer on Genetic Engineering

Good news: The agonizing moral quandary of “designer babies” has been resolved. But will scientists accept democracy’s verdict?

The Editors of The New Atlantis

Symposium | Winter 2004

Winter 2004

Biotechnology and the Good Life

Science and Self-Government
A More Child-Like Science
Man or Machine?
Methuselah and Us
Restless Souls

Special Report | Summer 2015

Summer 2015

The Threat of Human Cloning

Ethics, Recent Developments, and the Case for Action
Executive Summary
Members of the Witherspoon Council
Preface: Cloning Then and Now
Part One: Scientific and Historical Background
Part Two: The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children
Part Three: The Case Against Cloning-for-Biomedical-Research
Part Four: Cloning Policy in the United States
Part Five: Recommendations
Appendix: State Laws on Human Cloning
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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Brendan Foht

The New Kinship Engineering

Three-parent babies are being created not to prevent disease but to manufacture genetic relationships.

Brendan Foht

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