The plow made men powerful. The pill handed some of that power back to women.

Harvard Business School’s Debora Spar walked me through that idea back in 2020, two years before ChatGPT made everyone suddenly care about how machines reshape our lives.

Her point was bigger than #AI or any single gadget. Technology doesn’t just change how we work. It changes who we marry, how we love, and what we believe men and women are for. Most of us still look at tech through an engineering lens. She insists on the widest lens possible.

Then she told me her book reads history through a Marxist lens. A former Barnard president and HBS dean, saying that on the record.

We also got into why tech self-regulation has never worked, what Keynes predicted for his grandchildren (and us), #FutureOfWork and technological unemployment, and what Tinder is doing to sex and relationships.

Six years later, one question won’t leave me alone: if the plow and the pill rewired the family, what will thinking machines do to it?

Debora’s answer is in the full 90 minutes. I’d love to hear yours.

Watch or listen to my full conversation with Debora Spar on Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny 👉 [ https://snglrty.co/3ZOlW6R](https://snglrty.co/3ZOlW6R)

Prof. Debora Spar is dean at the Harvard Business School studying gender, technology and the interplay between technological change and social structures.