The New Atlantis (1627) was the title Francis Bacon selected for his fable of a society living with the benefits and challenges of advanced science and technology. Bacon, a founder and champion of modern science, sought not only to highlight the potential of technology to improve human life, but also to foresee some of the social, moral, and political difficulties that confront a society haped by the great scientific enterprise. His book offers no obvious answers; perhaps it seduces more than it warns. But the tale also hints at some of the dilemmas that arise with the ability to remake and reconfigure the natural world: governing science, so that it might flourish freely without destroying or dehumanizing us, and understanding the effect of technology on human life, human aspiration, and the human good. To a great extent, we live in the world Bacon imagined, and now we must find a way to live well with both its burdens and its blessings. This very challenge, which now confronts our own society most forcefully, is the focus of this journal.
Editor
Adam Keiper
Managing Editor
Samuel Matlack
Associate Editors
Brendan P. Foht
1 Anthony Mills
Assistant Editor
Michael W. Begun
Senior Editors
Caitrin Nicol Keiper
Yuval Levin
Christine Rosen
Ari N. Schulman
Editor–at-L arge
Eric Cohen
Contributing Editors
James C. Capretta
Matthew B. Crawford
Alan Jacobs
Peter Augustine Lawler
Wilfred M. McClay
Gilbert Meilaender
Charles T. Rubin
Diana Schaub
Roger Scruton
Stephen L. Talbott
Raymond Tallis
Algis Valiunas
Adam J. White
Robert Zubrin
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The New Atlantis (ISSN 1543-1215) is published quarterly in the Spring,
Summer, Fall, and Winter by the Center for the Study of Technology and Society in partnership with the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. It is printed by Global Printing and distributed by Ingram Periodicals, Inc.