A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of "the end of history," Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition. Fukuyama sketches a brief history of man's changing understanding of human nature: from Plato and Aristotle to the modernity's utopians and dictators who sought to remake mankind for ideological ends. Fukuyama argues that the ability to manipulate the DNA of all of one person's descendants will have profound, and potentially terrible, consequences for our political order, even if undertaken with the best of intentions. In "Our Posthuman Future," one of our greatest social philosophers begins to describe the potential effects of genetic exploration on the foundation of liberal democracy: the belief that human beings are equal by nature.

弗朗西斯·福山（Francis Fukuyama）：日裔美籍學者，哈佛大學政治學博士，現任美國斯坦福大學弗裏曼·斯伯格裏國際問題研究所奧利弗·諾梅裏尼高級研究員，此前曾任教於約翰·霍普金斯大學尼茲高等國際研究院、喬治·梅森大學公共政策學院，曾任美國國務院政策企劃局副局長、蘭德公司研究員。著有《曆史的終結與最後的人》、《信任》、《政治秩序的起源》等。現居加利福尼亞。