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Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death
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What if we could have babies without having to bear children, eat meat without killing animals, have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise or choose the time of our painless death? To find out, Jenny Kleeman has interviewed a sex robot, eaten a priceless lab-grown chicken nugget, watched foetuses growing in plastic bags and attended members-only meetings where people learn how to kill themselves. Many of the people Kleeman has met say they are finding solutions to problems that have always defined and constricted humankind. But what truly motivates them? What kind of person devotes their life to building a death machine? What kind of customer is desperate to buy an artificially intelligent sex doll – and why? Who is campaigning against these advances, and how are they trying to stop them? And what about the many unintended consequences such inventions will inevitably unleash? Sex Robots & Vegan Meat is not science fiction. It's not about what might happen one day – it's about what is happening right now, and who is making it happen. In the end, it asks a simple question: are we about to change what it means to be human . . . for ever?
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"Fans of Mary Roach will be pleased."
"'Technology dehumanises us,' she plangently concludes."
"Responses can evoke bemusement, disbelief, or outrage, as it becomes clear that none of these innovations are solutions, but rather circumventions to worldwide problems, many created by technology in the first place ..."
"Kleeman's exploration of the frontier sometimes leads her into the weeds."
"Her book is less a pearl-clutching polemic against progress than a concerned squint at what the future might hold ..."
"a funny yet disturbing report on the science, technology, and marketing strategies reshaping some of the most basic human urges and drives ..."
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