A review by actuallyahorsereads
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku

4.0

I really enjoyed this book for the most part! It was really cool reading this coming off of The Calculating Stars, because this does talk quite a bit about the actual history of space travel and where we might be going in the future. I learned quite a bit, and listening to this as an audiobook was definitely a good choice. He did start to lose me a bit toward the end when he started getting deep into some of the science, and there were times when he was talking about other potential civilizations that he lacked imagination about what those could potentially be, especially in terms of technology. I get that he was trying to relate it back to our understanding and our own concept of society, but the writer in me kept going “BUT THEY COULD DO THIS INSTEAD AND HAVE WAY MORE ADVANCED STUFF THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT BUT NOT IN OURS.” Reasons why I chose to go into the arts instead of science unlike the rest of my family, I guess.
Overall, this was a highly fascinating read and I recommend it to anyone who has an interest in space or what future technology could be!