Since the middle of 20th Century, the fast development of technology brought the birth of a new type of society. It has been named variously as postmodern society, late capitalistic society, digital society, as well as consumer society, virtual society and so on. Its nature seems to elude our grasp. New technology brings with enormous impact to our society and individual both physiologically and spiritually. Genetics brings to the forth genetic modification, human cloning, inter-species organisms; computer and internet change the faces of our daily lives: electronification of our living, isolated men and women behind the computer, one-night passions or love over the network. Neuroscience goes deep into the working of our mind, it makes neural interference possible to change our characters, our memory, our self-identity, enhancement of psychological powers, virtual pains and pleasure, making what is real and virtual unrecognizable. In a word, these new technology have great impacts upon our personal identity, privacy, family ties, social relationship, moral responsibility, global warming and what-not. In this Century, we need a full scale response to deal with such an encompassing challenge to rebuild our humanities and culture. In the upcoming issues we would like to invite subscription of new research results on the theme from disciplines and inter-disciplinary studies from philosophy, history, literature, music, arts, culture, and religion to enrich our knowledge and understanding of the problem and way out in this global age of human history.

Please send submissions by post or email to JH@ncu.edu.tw, no later than January 31, 2011.