A Radio 4 Book of the Week'Jon Ronson meets Louis Theroux in the style of Joan Didion' – The Telegraph'Fascinating, funny, illuminating' – Adam Hills'Riveting . . . human stories that make the impersonal intelligible' – The GuardianIn surprising stories that take us into the worlds of hitmen, insurance frauds and modern-day slaves, Jenny Kleeman explores the value of human life.

‘Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood’ – New Statesman‘A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world’ – The Times‘A moreish page-turner of a book’ – HeraldImagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise, eat meat without killing animals, have babies without the need to bear them, and choose the time of our painless death. Life would be better, right?All...

Nascita, cibo, sesso, morte: sono quattro esperienze fondamentali della vita umana, che la definiscono e la sintetizzano e che ognuno di noi deve affrontare. Ma la tecnologia sta spingendo sempre più in là le frontiere, i limiti stessi di queste esperienze, cambiandone il significato. Cosa succederebbe se potessimo avere figli senza gravidanze? Se potessimo avere rapporti sessuali soddisfacenti senza bisogno di altri esseri umani? Se potessimo mangiare cibo creato in laboratorio? Se potess...

一趟顛覆認知的旅程，讓你重新思考——當一條生命的價值被量化，你還相信它是「無價」的嗎？我們真的願意承認，有些人的命比別人的更值錢嗎？當生命成為價格標籤，你願意面對真相嗎？這是一部精彩的調查報導作品，不容錯過！我們總以為生命是無價的，但事實是——世界每天都在為生命標價！殉職消防員的撫卹金、空難犧牲者的賠償金，還有像是本書所追蹤的：15,180英鎊(65萬 TWD)，一名職業殺手的收費4,000億美金(128兆TWD)，世界最昂貴武器的價值20萬英鎊(850萬 TWD)，一份壽險的理賠金額5,000美金(16萬 TWD)，一具人體屍體的市場價格這些關於人命價格的數字將會揭露那些隱藏的、有時令人感到不安的真相，反映出人們真正重視的是「什麼」以及「什麼人」。如今我們的生活總有數字或分數常相隨。作為一個人，你的價值可能被簡化為按讚數、觀看次數與追蹤人數；你的幸福健康被化約為...

Willkommen in Roboterland? In ihrem eindrucksvollen Debüt nimmt uns die britische Journalistin und Dokumentarfilmerin Jenny Kleeman mit auf eine faszinierende Reise in die Welt von morgen – die schon heute entsteht. Die technische Entwicklung wird bald alle Bereiche unseres Lebens komplett verändern: wie wir geboren werden, essen, Sex haben und sterben. Kleeman trifft die Entwickler von Sexrobotern, von Organen und Fleisch aus dem 3D-Drucker und von künstlichen Gebärmüttern. Hautnah beobac...

‘Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood’ – New Statesman‘A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world’ – The Times‘A moreish page-turner of a book’ – HeraldImagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise, eat meat without killing animals, have babies without the need to bear them, and choose the time of our painless death. Life would be better, right?All...

Read by the author, Jenny Kleeman.'Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood' - New Statesman'Writing, thinking and storytelling at its best' - Ben Judah, author of This Is Europe__________* $2-3,000 to save the life of a child in Africa* £15,180 to hire a hitman* $368,901 to pay the average ransom demand