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The Age of Choice: How Technology, Biology and Power Are Redefining What It Means to Be Human
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens to human freedom when technology can predict our behaviour, biology can be edited and attention can be engineered?
The Age of Choice examines how some of the most promising developments in science and technology are changing not only what human beings can do, but the conditions under which they decide who to become.
Moving from gene editing and self-optimisation to algorithmic influence, genomic markets, artificial empathy and the architecture of digital behaviour, Tony Toks Akiwumi explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between assistance and control, therapy and enhancement, convenience and dependence.
This is not an argument against progress. It is an inquiry into what makes progress worthy of trust.
Drawing on documented research, law, regulation, philosophy and clearly identified illustrative vignettes, the book asks:
- When does medical treatment become human enhancement?
- Can a choice remain free when the environment surrounding it has been deliberately designed?
- Who owns the information produced by our bodies?
- What happens when prediction affects opportunity, eligibility and access?
- Can innovation advance without turning human difference into a defect to be corrected?
At the centre of the book is a simple claim: capability must be matched by transparency, restraint, accountability and care.
In an age increasingly shaped by design, freedom begins with the ability to notice the design.
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