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A review by ninakeller
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku
4.0
Just as people in the 1900s could not easily imagine the year 2000, we underestimate the advancements that will define the year 2100.
Talking with 300 of the top scientists at the cutting edge of science and technology, Kaku predicts the advancements we can reasonably expect this century.
Just as Newton’s laws of physics set the stage for the industrial revolution, we have come to an understanding of the universe that allows humans to do things that would have been considered mystical or god-like by our ancestors. We retain, however, “caveman” ways of thinking and surviving [caveman principle], which combined with domination over the laws of nature will define the future of technological advancement.
So much fun to read, especially the last chapter which concludes the book with a vignette of daily life in the next century. It was written pre-covid pandemic, but interestingly predicts pandemics as a marker of progress toward what we can expect in a nanotechnology-driven future.
Talking with 300 of the top scientists at the cutting edge of science and technology, Kaku predicts the advancements we can reasonably expect this century.
Just as Newton’s laws of physics set the stage for the industrial revolution, we have come to an understanding of the universe that allows humans to do things that would have been considered mystical or god-like by our ancestors. We retain, however, “caveman” ways of thinking and surviving [caveman principle], which combined with domination over the laws of nature will define the future of technological advancement.
So much fun to read, especially the last chapter which concludes the book with a vignette of daily life in the next century. It was written pre-covid pandemic, but interestingly predicts pandemics as a marker of progress toward what we can expect in a nanotechnology-driven future.