Physics Of The Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny And Our Daily Lives By The Year 2100 (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
This book feels like a bloated diary of Michio Kaku's unvetted musings about science and technology. At the beginning he compares his efforts in this book to those of Leonardo di Vinci and Jules Verne. He then name drops his way through a wide variety of ideas and topics of which he appears to have only a Discovery Channel level understanding. My main complaint is his flippant and grossly incorrect use of the concept of entropy. ENTROPY IS NOT DISORDER! In one section Kaku explains how genetic mutations are a consequence of entropy. I guess that's correct in the sense that EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IS A CONSEQUENCE OF ENTROPY. That said, the entropy of a mutated gene is essentially the same as the entropy of the unmutated gene. In any case, I can't recommend this book. Read it at your own intellectual risk. For a book with "physics" in the title, this book sure doesn't spend much time on science.The first third is a real slog, mostly futurist predictions about wonderful technology, predicted in a voice reminiscent of a 1960s carnival showman who forgets that he's not writing a review of popular sci-fi films: "In the move Star Wars, we were amazed by 3D holographic images. In fact, the action of the first film is kicked off by a message recorded in 3D by Princess Leia and conveyed by the robot..." (Paraphrased.)Mr Kaku, please stop going into detail about science-fiction films!
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