Sex Robots & Vegan Meat - Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death

A timely investigation into the forces that are driving innovation in the four core areas of human experience: birth, food, sex and deathWe are on the brink of seismic change in every one of these four areas, from artificial wombs, to lab-grown meat; from sex robots programmable to have polite conversations with your wife, to a new frontier in assisted dying. Who are the people dictating and shaping the change taking place, and what is motivating them to do it? Can we safely assume that these entrepreneurs are in it for the thrill of human advancement, or might there be more sinister motivations at hand?Sex Robots & Vegan Meat will take the reader on a fascinating exploration of the changes afoot, and their implications for who we are as a society, and as humans.

Product details

• Authors: JENNY KLEEMAN
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781509894888
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-9488-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 225 mm x 39 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, Social Theory, SCIENCE / Ethics, Reportage & collected journalism, Food & society, Ethical issues: scientific & technological developments, Social and ethical issues, Cookery / food and drink / food writing