Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

by Michio Kaku

“The future is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed.”

Without emotions, everything has the same value, and we become paralyzed by endless decisions, all of which have the same weight.

that one characteristic sometimes stands out from all the others: the ability to delay gratification.

Previous experiments in utopia failed because of scarcity, which led to inequalities, then bickering, and ultimately collapse.

without the motivating factor of scarcity and money, it could lead to a self-indulgent, degenerate society that sinks to the lowest level.

“The great Islamic civilization went into decline when Muslim scholars interpreted knowledge acquisition, as enjoined by the Qur’an, to mean only knowledge of religion, and that other knowledge was un-Islamic.

The answer to the question “What happened?” is clear. Science and technology happened. Science and technology are the engines of prosperity.

Isaac Asimov once said, “The saddest aspect of society right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”