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432: Sex Robots & Vegan Meat with Jenny Kleeman

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Lucas Rockwood

Love, Detox, Food, Yogabody, Pranayama, Vegan, Selfimprovement, Self-improvement, Relationships, Meditation, Breathing, Education, Emotions, Mental, Vegetarian, Inspiring, Leader, Balance, Motivating, Weightloss, Flexibility, Habits, Health, Motivation, Yoga, Nutrition

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sex Robots & Vegan Meat
Jenny Kleeman
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Disruptive technology has defined our generation and captured our collection imagination. I haven’t owned a television or a landline phone since the 90s. Google Maps has made it possible to navigate any city as a tourist with more accuracy than a local resident, and healthy food is becoming cheaper and more widely acceptable every day.

But there are downsides to disruption too - lots of downsides.

In the next decade, technology won’t just disrupt industries, it will disrupt the moral fabric of society. How do we navigate the complexity of artificial wombs, lab-grown meat, sex robots, and euthanasia? Do you have a firm moral stance on any of these issues? I don’t, and I’m not sure how to resolve these open loops.

On this week’s show, you’ll meet journalist and author, Jenny Kleeman who shares her deep-dive research into morally disruptive technologies.

Listen & Learn:

  • The reality of sex robots and the real risks vs. rewards in the future
  • How lab-grown meat could replace our dependence on factory farms
  • Where to draw moral lines in the sand when it comes to artificial wombs, designer babies, and medically-assisted death

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Jenny Kleeman is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. Her articles appear regularly in the Guardian and also in the Sunday Times (London), The Times of London, The New Statesman, and VICE. She won the “One World Media Television Award” for her work on, Unreported World', and was nominated for the Amnesty International Gaby Rado Award.

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0:00.0

Disruptive technology has really captured the collective imagination and also fear in society in a very big way for at least the last 100 years.

0:12.0

You know the Model T car comes along and suddenly

0:14.5

horse and buggy is redundant and very quickly seems old school. The cell phone

0:19.3

comes along and we no longer need landlines. I haven't had a landline phone since the 90s.

0:24.8

And then Uber comes along and hailing a taxi the old way suddenly seems really cumbersome.

0:30.3

This is the nature of disruptive technologies. There's always some positive things always some negative things and really a lot of unknowns

0:38.1

There's a bunch of things happening right now that people aren't talking about,

0:43.4

which are perhaps some of the most disruptive technologies

0:47.2

possible in and around birth and death

0:51.4

and mass food production and also sexuality.

0:55.2

On this week's podcast we'll explore a couple of those topics and inevitably this

1:01.0

always opens up more questions than answers and oddly I don't

1:04.8

think enough people are talking about these disruptive technologies are

1:08.5

suddenly opening up a bunch of really really complex moral questions that were not at play when for example the

1:15.3

model T disrupted the horse and buggy there weren't moral questions to be

1:18.6

answered there but if we talk about robot robotic sex dolls if we talk about meat that never was an animal if we

1:26.2

talk about in vitro babies where we choose the eye color it gets pretty

1:31.3

weird pretty quickly and not only do we not have a moral blueprint to

1:36.4

navigate through this new reality most of us don't even have any idea what we really think about these things.

1:44.0

It's coming pretty quickly. If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show.

1:48.0

I'm a yoga teacher, a trainer, I'm a serial entrepreneur, I'm a father, but first and

1:51.7

foremost, I'm a student. I use this

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