Using mathematical analysis terminology, it is not clear any more, which is the independent and which is the dependent variable. This freedom from and over the genes is a new kind of freedom in history. If we think on an interpretation of history, which says that history is the search for freedom we will reach not only a significant milestone in history, but also the terminology of history will also be genetically transformed. This does not obviously mean, that an individual could totally manipulate its own genetic structure, but it does mean that mankind as a whole, through the manipulation of the genes of future generations could alter its genes in time, therefore can be free of them in a certain sense. This is of course a question, which cannot be answered today.
Gene technology provides a new kind of freedom for humankind, and hence a new kind of history.
Although, it is not clear, whether this new kind of history can be called history at all. When mankind try to change its own genetic code, it also changes its own biological past in the sense that this change will be part of the past in the future. This means that genetic experiments and operations are activities, working on structures, which were built up in the past under completely different environmental circumstances and time-dimensions as the factors, or dimensions of our laboratories are. However, our genetic experiments in the laboratory might have real effects on biological species that will alter evolution and its time structure. Genetic operations are virtual influences on the past, which may not only be virtual if it has a real influence on the codes, and can cause very real changes in the evolution of biological species.