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September 8, 2025

Beware of High-Tech Promises to Save the Family

It would be better if Silicon Valley focused on doing less harm.

Along with creating incredible, and sometimes terrifying, inventions—and contributing millions to the national economy, as well as to their own bank accounts—leading figures of Silicon Valley like to prophesy about the benefits new technologies will bring to society. The latest idea is that online commerce, artificial intelligence, and the like can bolster the American family. Christine Rosen is as skeptical of these proposals as she is of the idea that new technology can revolutionize education

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