{"id":246436,"date":"2026-11-03T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/debora-spar-on-work-mate-marry-love-how-machines-shape-our-human-destiny"},"modified":"2026-11-03T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:12:16","slug":"debora-spar-on-work-mate-marry-love-how-machines-shape-our-human-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/debora-spar-on-work-mate-marry-love-how-machines-shape-our-human-destiny","title":{"rendered":"Debora Spar on Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/903458410-singularity1on1-debora-spar.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>The plow made men powerful. The pill handed some of that power back to women.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard Business School\u2019s Debora Spar walked me through that idea back in 2020, two years before ChatGPT made everyone suddenly care about how machines reshape our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Her point was bigger than #AI or any single gadget. Technology doesn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>Then she told me her book reads history through a Marxist lens. A former Barnard president and HBS dean, saying that on the record.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Six years later, one question won\u2019t leave me alone: if the plow and the pill rewired the family, what will thinking machines do to it?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/debora-spar-on-work-mate-marry-love-how-machines-shape-our-human-destiny\">Continue reading \u201cDebora Spar on Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plow made men powerful. The pill handed some of that power back to women. Harvard Business School\u2019s 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\u2019t just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,6,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}