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Sex Robots and Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death
Maybe someday
38
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
40/100Critics
36/100Scholars
Author:
Jenny Kleeman
Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Date:
September 1, 2020
Award-winning journalist and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman explores how technology is fundamentally altering our notions of birth, food, sex, and death and introduces readers to the quirky entrepreneurs who are capitalizing on these changes.
What The Reviewers Say
Kleeman approaches the future as a reporter firmly grounded in the present; her method is to journey to the frontier and take a long look around. The book leans heavily on conversations between the writer and various figures with stakes in the game.
Midway through Jenny Kleeman’s entertaining survey of the latest advances in life sciences, I began to worry about female obsolescence.
Kleeman, a journalist and documentary-maker who specialises in tech and social affairs, makes a compelling and thoughtful attempt to understand where such inventions might lead us. Her book is less a pearl-clutching polemic against progress than a concerned squint at what the future might hold.
Kleeman is an acerbic guide, whose understated common sense contrasts with the grandiosity of her interviewees.
