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A review by lizzierose147
Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death by Jenny Kleeman
adventurous
challenging
informative
fast-paced
5.0
Sex Robots and Vegan meat -
This is phenomenal journalism and a compelling and thought-provoking book. Open-minded, comprehensive and consistently nuanced, Kleeman explores the implications of controversial and groundbreaking technology in the fields of birth, food, sex and death - and the implications these technologies will have on our collective understandings of humanity. With a foundation of investigative research spanning several years, and including dozens of stakeholder interviews, Kleeman doesn't shy away from challenging those pioneering sex robots or ectogenetic womb environments on the ethical implications of their innovations.
She encourages us to question our impulse to engineer ever more advanced technological fixes for societal problems that are ultimately themselves artificial and man-made. Indeed, Kleeman invites us to interrogate our values surrounding gender relations, overconsumption and death itself and asks, would it not benefit everyone to change the societal values that drives the market behind the sex dolls or industrial farming industries, instead of than investing billions in advancing the technological frontiers to circumvent our issues, as opposed to solving them at their source?
This is phenomenal journalism and a compelling and thought-provoking book. Open-minded, comprehensive and consistently nuanced, Kleeman explores the implications of controversial and groundbreaking technology in the fields of birth, food, sex and death - and the implications these technologies will have on our collective understandings of humanity. With a foundation of investigative research spanning several years, and including dozens of stakeholder interviews, Kleeman doesn't shy away from challenging those pioneering sex robots or ectogenetic womb environments on the ethical implications of their innovations.
She encourages us to question our impulse to engineer ever more advanced technological fixes for societal problems that are ultimately themselves artificial and man-made. Indeed, Kleeman invites us to interrogate our values surrounding gender relations, overconsumption and death itself and asks, would it not benefit everyone to change the societal values that drives the market behind the sex dolls or industrial farming industries, instead of than investing billions in advancing the technological frontiers to circumvent our issues, as opposed to solving them at their source?