It's kind of weird and not at all unlike Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel Oryx & Crake, which constructs a not-too-distant future that has commercialized genetically engineered animals and commodified genes to the point where the world her characters call home is one almost entirely man-made. I think that sucks. We're not very good at design as it is, why would we want to mess with the indifferent perfection of the natural world?
What caught my attention was the first image in the series:
eerie, at best.
...and not just because I work for a company called Pink Elephant, but because this "animal" is the literalisation of a beautiful metaphorical expression that has no equivalent in the material realm.
Should we, just because we can, make flights of fancy real? What do we gain but a tragic novelty? What do we lose but the infinite possibility of the unrealised?
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