All of these developments will have a huge impact on the future well-being of the human race, yet for many of us they are distant and unfamiliar. This is particularly true of genetic engineering, considered the biggest breakthrough in the life sciences since genetics and molecular biology. Man has begun to probe the very origins of life.
這種種攸關人類未來福祉的電腦、網路、基因工程，對許多人而言，似乎依然陌生而遙遠，尤其是基因工程，雖然被認為是自遺傳學、分子生物學以來，生物科學最大的突破，人類已開始直探生命的源頭。