千岁人

这正如《千岁人》在1920年所预言的：

It was much as Back to Methuselah had prophesied in 1920 :

最近这边有一部很好的戏剧，作者是萧伯纳，叫作《千岁人》。

There has been a very good play on here by Bernard Shaw called ' Back to Methuselah ' .

如果说艾伦很喜欢《千岁人》，那就是因为萧伯纳在戏剧里表现了他的思想，生命有其自身的力量。

If Alan enjoyed Back to Methuselah , it would also have been because Shaw dramatised his theory of the Life Force ,

艾伦也许想到了《千岁人》中的超智能，他们替萧伯纳回答了政客们的那些不可解的麻烦事，答案就是：滚回家去吧，你个傻瓜！

Alan might have been thinking of the ' oracle ' in Back to Methuselah , through whose mouth Bernard Shaw answered the unsolvable problems of the politicians with ' Go home , poor fool ' !

实际上在1933年，艾伦就已经在这个水平上进行思考了。萧伯纳的《千岁人》中，有位未来科学家发明了人造人，它能够表现，至少是模仿，20世纪人类的思维和情感，而科学家无法区分人造人和生物人。

Indeed in 1933 he had seen it on the stage , for in Back to Methuselah Shaw had a future scientist produce an artificial ' automaton ' which could show , or at least imitate , the thought and emotions of twentieth century people .

在《千岁人》人，萧伯纳幻想了公元31920年的超智能生物，他们从对艺术、科学和性的兴趣中脱离出来（“那些幼稚的游戏：跳舞，唱歌和交配”），转而只关心数学

In Back to Methuselah , Bernard Shaw imagined super-intelligent beings of 31920 A.D. growing out of the concerns of art , science and sex ( 'these childish games - this dancing and singing and mating ' ) and turning away to think about mathematics .