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The Future of Humanity, Michio Kaku
Michio Kaku at the San Mateo College
Future of the mind
Future of humanity
Physics of the future
- Organisms on earth eventually will meet one of three fates, leave, adapt or die. Earth has already sustained 5 extinction cycles.
- The threats we face are largely self inflicted
- Scientific revolution comes in waves often stimulated by advances in physics
- 19th century
- mechanics and thermodynamics: locomotive and industrial revolution
- 20th century
- electricity and magnetism bring forth the electric age
- The forthcoming wave
- nano-technology
- AI, neural networks
- Quantum computing
- CRISPR revolution
- Transhumanism – the need to deal with ethical questions
- Technological regression occurs when the population becomes complacent,
- Admiral Zheng He and his fleet under subsequent rulers
- US space program after the cold war is over
- Interesting phenomena worth exploring
- wormholes
- rogue planets – planets that do not orbit any particular stars
- caloric restriction and increased life expectancy
- falling birthrates and education of women
- uploading and downloading of consciousness (Transcendence and Mnemonic Johnny)
- achievement of super strength on new planets
- artificial enhancement of body, seamless interfacing with machines (telekinesis)
- big bang happening over and over again and the universe does not grow only in one direction
- Civilization categorization method 1:
- energy based
- Type 1: utilizes all the energy of the sunlight falling on the planet
- Type 2: utilizes all energy its sun produces
- Type 3: utilizes energy of an entire galaxy
- Type 4: utilizing energy beyond the galaxy
- information consumption based
