现代科学在挑战许多已有的领域界限。特别是遗传学,它提升合并物种的前景,转移物种间DNA,或对某个物种的本质提出质疑。新的机遇层出不穷,只要我们想到就有可能付诸实现——或者在我们伦理所能接受的范围之内,因新技术真实或潜在的应用往往会带给人强烈的不安感。尽管理性的科学可以阐释什么是可能发生的,但或许就像Elio Caccavale和Michael Reiss所认为的,只有艺术和人文能够创意性地释放情感和文字去想象未来的世界,从而真正清晰表达出未来的样貌。 Modern science is challenging many existing domain boundaries. Especially genetics, which elevate the prospects of the pooled species, divert inter-species DNA, or question the nature of a species. New opportunities emerge in an endless stream, and as long as we think of them, they are likely to come to fruition - or within the limits of our ethics, because of the real or potential application of new technologies, which often give a strong sense of unease. Although rational science can explain what is likely to happen, it may be as Elio Caccavale and Michael Reiss argue that only art and humanity can creatively release emotions and words to imagine the future of the world, so as to truly express the future Appearance.