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A review by readalittlebitmore
Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death by Jenny Kleeman
dark
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I’ll start this by quoting a quote from the back of the book; “This book 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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Well, in this book, Jenny Kleeman investigates and visits the people who is starting to redefine the adventures of birth, food, human relationships and death in a way that might shake the foundation and definition of those up unto this day. Then she writes about it. She interviews a sex doll equipped with AI, she eats meat grown in laboratories - grown from stem cells biopsied from a still alive animal, she watches a featus growing in a plastic bag and she attends members only meetings where people learn how to kill themselves for being able to control that moment when it comes.
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There are a lot provoking and thought awakening chapters in this book and I’m in lack of better words, in awe of what technology does to the world and to humanity. Connecting this to the thoughts awaken when reading Homo Deus, here we explore the modern man’s problems and possible solutions to those. Some of these made me feel awe in disgust and some in contentment. There is for sure a side to every coin and reading this book made me think of that even more.
Obviously and maybe it goes without saying, but it is quite a far fetched future before these new technologies becomes every day life for our every day man. It is all quite advanced expensive technologies and out there ideas that people are just starting to make real, but it’s still there and fascinates, terrifies and blows minds.
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Very interesting read to say the least and for people thinking about the future in bigger definitions then what to eat for dinner tomorrow, I’ll absolutely recommend this book. And I recommend reading it together with a few others on the subject of humanity in the future.
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Well, in this book, Jenny Kleeman investigates and visits the people who is starting to redefine the adventures of birth, food, human relationships and death in a way that might shake the foundation and definition of those up unto this day. Then she writes about it. She interviews a sex doll equipped with AI, she eats meat grown in laboratories - grown from stem cells biopsied from a still alive animal, she watches a featus growing in a plastic bag and she attends members only meetings where people learn how to kill themselves for being able to control that moment when it comes.
.
There are a lot provoking and thought awakening chapters in this book and I’m in lack of better words, in awe of what technology does to the world and to humanity. Connecting this to the thoughts awaken when reading Homo Deus, here we explore the modern man’s problems and possible solutions to those. Some of these made me feel awe in disgust and some in contentment. There is for sure a side to every coin and reading this book made me think of that even more.
Obviously and maybe it goes without saying, but it is quite a far fetched future before these new technologies becomes every day life for our every day man. It is all quite advanced expensive technologies and out there ideas that people are just starting to make real, but it’s still there and fascinates, terrifies and blows minds.
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Very interesting read to say the least and for people thinking about the future in bigger definitions then what to eat for dinner tomorrow, I’ll absolutely recommend this book. And I recommend reading it together with a few others on the subject of humanity in the future.