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自从2000年6月25日那一天起,我开始把当今的社会称之为“后基因时代”。理由是这一天以美国为首的多国集团经过了长期艰辛的努力合作,终于完成并宣布了“人”的DNA密码草图的基本框架。这个日子是生命史上最神圣的日子,因为这意味着人类将结束过去数十亿年被动进化的自然历程而进入主动改变生命遗传基因退化的科学历程。本打算那天在本校(新疆艺术学院)作一次题目为“面对后基因时代”的讲座,可是由于某些原因在本来具有划时代意义的日子里作那个有针对性和纪念性的
Since the day of June 25, 2000, I began to refer to today’s society as the “post-epoch”. The reason is that the multinational group headed by the United States on this very day has finally completed and announced the basic framework of the DNA password sketches of “people” after a long and arduous effort and cooperation. This day is the holiest day in the history of life, because it means that humanity will end the natural course of billions of years of passive evolution and enter the scientific course of actively changing the degradation of life genes. I was going to give a lecture on “Facing the Post-Gene Age” at our school (Xinjiang Academy of Arts) on that day, but for some reason I made that pertinent and memorable one in a landmark day