The New Atlantis

The New Atlantis is a quarterly journal about the social, ethical, and political dimensions of modern science and technology. Since its founding in 2003, the journal has been at the center of debates about how to govern science and how to live well and wisely with technological change.

The New Atlantis

Offloading Ourselves • An inquiry into staying human in the age of AI

Editor’s Note

You Probably Own This 7-Eleven (and That’s Why It Looks So Sad)

A New Piece of the Puzzle of Covid’s Origin

Pitch Decks Are Eating the World • Politicians “iterate.” Think tanks “pivot.” Cities hire “Chief Innovation Officers.” We all “scale” and “optimize.” And tech founders look at the inheritance of civilization and see a legacy codebase overdue for refactoring.

Is Your Embryo Harvard Material?

The Tech–Trad Alliance: R.I.P. (2025–2025)

How to Keep AI From Destroying Prosecution

Stack Underflow: Losing the Craft of Coding

The Big Drift: An AI Scenario

You Don’t Have to Use AI

Operation Gaslight

Why Is Digital Freedom Making Us Exhausted and Sad?

A State That Supports Families, or a State-Shaped Family?