Introduction 

A new era of technological change is upon us. It threatens to supplant

the human person and make the family functionally and biologically

unnecessary. But this anti-human outcome is not inevitable.

Conservatives must welcome dynamic innovation, but they should

oppose the deployment of technologies that undermine human goods.

We must enact policies that elevate the family to a primary

constituency of technological advancement. Our aim should be a newly

re-functionalized household for the twenty-first century.

Technology is meant to empower the human person. We have seen, however,

that if left ungoverned, technological advancement too easily comes to hinder

human flourishing and threatens the human person and the family. Many of the

most important political questions of our day have been prompted by the moral

implications of new technologies: Should human life be artificially created or

destroyed? Can people change genders? Should digital obscenity be accessible

to all ages in the name of free speech? Should jobs that sustain families be

automated? We must discern prudent ways to govern technology in order to

keep the human person, human dignity, and the common good as the central

goals of our politics. We must ensure that new technologies serve human life

and the human family, not the other way around.