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INSECTICIDES
AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS,
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION NOWADAYS OUTSTRIPS
THE HIGHEST EXPECTATIONS ANCIENT FARMERS HAD
OF THEIR GODS?

And the parched state of Israel
no longer fears that some angry deity will restrain the heavens and stop àll
rain ~ for the Israelis have recently built a huge desalination plant on the shores of the Mediterranean,
so they can now get all their drinking water from the sea! So far we have competed with the gods of old
by creating better & better tools. In the not too distant future, we might create superhumans who will outstrip
the ancient gods not in their tools, but in their bodily & mental faculties?! Ìf & whèn we gèt thère, however,
divinity will become as mundane as cyberspace - a wonder of wonders
that we just take for granted......

We can be quite certain
that humans wìll make a bid for divinity, because humans have many reasons
to desire such an upgrade, and many ways to achieve it!? Even if one promising path turns out to be a dead
end, alternative routes will remain open?! 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...... Nó NÉÉD to panic, though! At least not immediately. Ùpgráding Sapiens
will be a gradual historical process rather than a Hollywoodish Apocalypse. Homo sapiens is not going to be ex-
terminated by a robot revolt. Rather, Homo sapiens is likely to upgrade itself step by step, merging with robots &
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. This will not happen in a day,
or a year. Indeed, it is already happening right now, through innumerable mundane actions. Every day
millions of people decide to grant their smartphone a bit móre control over their lives
or try a new and more effective antidepressant drug......

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