A reply to Katherine Boyle's “The Great Tech–Family Alliance”| The New Atlantis
The disconnect between what technologists say they are doing and the effects on society of what they in fact do has long been a rich source of fodder for social observers and technology critics. Katherine Boyle’s recent remarks on the family and technology offer yet another example of the practice. In her efforts to craft a narrative of technology as potential handmaiden to the American family, she begins by contrasting the family with the state. This is an artful dodge, as her invocation o...| The New Atlantis
A reply to Katherine Boyle's “The Great Tech–Family Alliance”| The New Atlantis
On February 24, The New Atlantis co-hosted the event “Dignity and Dynamism: The Future of Conservative Technology Policy” at the American Enterprise Institute. In the event’s keynote address, Katherine Boyle, a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and cofounder of its American Dynamism practice, made the case for a new alliance between the tech industry and the family against the overweening power of the state: We are now living through a generational politica...| The New Atlantis
Debates over science and technology are too often confined to narrow questions. We offer our readers a space in which they can think directly about fundamental questions of morality and meaning.| The New Atlantis