So far we have competed with the gods of old by creating better and better tools.

因此我們可以通過創(chuàng)造越來越好的工具來與舊的諸神競爭笋籽。

In the not too distant future, we might create super humans who will outstrip the ancient gods not in their tools, but in their bodily and mental faculties.

在不久的將來，我們可以制造出不是憑借工具，而是從生理到心理特征都超越古代神靈的超人霸株。

If and when we get there, however, divinity will become as mundane as cyberspace – a wonder of wonders that we just take for granted.

如果到了那個時候诸衔，神性將變得和通信一樣平常盯漂，一群奇人中的一個奇人，我們會習以為常笨农。

We can be quite certain that humans will make a bid for divinity, because humans have many reasons to desire such an upgrade, and many ways to achieve it.

可以非尘屠拢肯定，人類力圖擁有神性谒亦，因為人們有許多理由渴望這種升級并且有很多途徑可以得到它竭宰。

Even if one promising path turns out to be a dead end, alternative routes will remain open.

盡管一條有希望的途徑最終的結果是失敗的，其它可替代的路線還是敞開的份招。

For example, we may discover that the human genome is far too complicated for serious manipulation, but this will not prevent the development of brain-computer interfaces, nano-robots or artificial intelligence.

例如切揭，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)人類的基因太復雜了，以致于不能嚴格的進行操控脾还，但這不能阻止腦-機界面伴箩、納米機器人和人工智能的發(fā)展。

No need to panic, though. At least not immediately.

人們不需要恐慌鄙漏，至少不必立即恐慌嗤谚。

Upgrading Sapiens will be a gradual historical process rather than a Hollywood apocalypse.

升級成智人是一個漸進的歷史過程，而非象好萊塢的災難片怔蚌。

Homo sapiens is not going to be exterminated by a robot revolt.

智人不會因為機器人而消亡巩步。

Rather, Homo sapiens is likely to upgrade itself step by step, merging with robots and computers in the process, until our descendants will look back and realize that they are no longer the kind of animal that wrote the Bible, built the Great Wall of China and laughed at Charlie Chaplin’s antics.

智人會一步一步升級自己，在這個過程中整合機器人和電腦桦踊，直到有一天我們的后代回望并認識到椅野，他們已不再是那些寫了圣經、修建了長城籍胯、看查理.卓別林式的滑稽大笑的人類竟闪。

This will not happen in a day, or a year.

這不會發(fā)生在一天或一年。

Indeed, it is already happening right now, through innumerable mundane actions.

事實上杖狼，它現(xiàn)在就在發(fā)生炼蛤，通過無數(shù)平常的行為。

Everyday millions of people decide to grant their smartphone a bit more control over their lives or try a new and more effective antidepressant drug.

每天數(shù)以百萬計的人們決定允許他們的手機控制他們的生活更多一點或者嘗試新的或更有效的抗抑郁藥物蝶涩。

In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until they will no longer be human.

為了追求健康理朋、快樂和權利絮识，人類會逐漸改變他們的某一特征，然后改變一個又一個嗽上，直到已經不再是人類次舌。