TheGlobalLabtellsthestoryofagroupoforganizationsandcorporationsusinglow-incomecountriesasalaboratory.Itrevealsexperimentswithuntestedtechnologies,biometrichumanitariansolutions,andradicalmethodologiesforsocialchange.Thebookmapsoutthepolitical,institutional,andethicalcoordinatesofemergenttransnationalpracticesofexperimentation,askingwhereandhowthismovementworks,whileunfoldingthehuman,philosophical,andpoliticalconsequencesofitsideasandinterventions.ThebooktakesthereaderthroughSiliconValley,Africa,andAsiatounderstandthetangibleandtransformativeimplicationsofcontemporaryhumanexperimentation.Itfollowsasetofmainprotagonists,fromtheBillandMelindaGatesFoundationtoexperimentaleconomistsknownastherandomistas,tohumanitarianorganizationsandpharmaceuticalcompanies.TheseactorsformamovementinspiredbythelogicofSiliconValleyabouttheneedforfast-pacedradicalchangeandsocietaldisruption,technologicalinnovationasprogress,andtheprivatizationandcommercializationofthehumanmindandbody.Ultimately,thebookexaminestheinequalityofexperimentationthatisfoundintheerectionofwallsbetweenusandthem,andtheimagineduniversalandoftenunquestionedvalueofscientificandtechnologicalprogress.
