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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 •
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Essay | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Laurence Scott

Gratuitous Display

The American diner and the viral tip

Laurence Scott

Essay | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Geoff Shullenberger

The New Net Delusion

How 2010’s digital utopians became 2020’s tech prophets of doom

Geoff Shullenberger

Symposium | Summer 2011

Summer 2011

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Why We Need a ‘Stuck with Virtue’ Science
The Case for Enhancing People
Liberation Biology, Lost in the Cosmos
Machine Morality and Human Responsibility
The Problem with ‘Friendly’ Artificial Intelligence
The Science of Politics and the Conquest of Nature
Justice without Foundations

Symposium | Spring 2011

Spring 2011

Place and Placelessness in America

GPS and the End of the Road
The Particularities of Place
The New Meaning of Mobility
Place-Conscious Transportation Policy
The Rise of Localist Politics
Frog: A Tale of Home

Symposium | Summer 2004

Summer 2004

Internet Pornography: An Exchange

The End of Obscenity
The Pornography Culture

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 Series

Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Spirit of Science
Wasting the Water of Life
Artful by Nature
From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires
The Last Temptation of Science
A Far Other Butterfly
The Possibility of Progress
Love Conquers All

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

Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • L. M. Sacasas

The Analog City and the Digital City

How online life breaks the old political order

From: Available in Audio

L. M. Sacasas

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Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • M. Anthony Mills
  • Mark P. Mills

The Science Before the War

How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research

M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills

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