ABSTRACT
Medical science has rewritten the future. A relatively small number of discoveries have transformed our ways of thinking about illness, disease, treatments and cures. In the space of one generation, the world around us has been transformed. Caught in a whirlwind of change brought about by the processes of globalization, the speed of the computer age and developments in biomedicine, both the context and possibilities of our lives seem to have become elastic, stretching and moulding into contours that were previously unimaginable. The future shock of our times leaves us with a sense that our communal lives have lost their anchor point, casting us into a realm where everything seems to be negotiable.
