Mankind
Pb : What will be the future of mankind ?
According to Kaku :
Looking at the next hundred years, there are two trends in the world today. The first trend is toward what we call a « type 1 » civilization, a planetary civilization. A civlization that resemble something out a Book Rogers or Flash Gordon.
The « type 2 » civilization is stellar, they consume so much energy, they can play with stars, that’s for exemple the federation of planets in Star Trek. Star Trek would represent a type two civilization.
The we have type three, just galactic like Independance day. That’s the « type 3 » civilization which is truelly galactic. Now by the time we reach type 2, you are immortal nothing known to science can destroy a type 2 civilization (comets, meteors and earthquakes even a supernova…) A type two civilization will be able to survive even a supernova. The danger is, the transition between type 0 and type 1, and that’s where we are today. We are a type 0 civilization, we get our energy from dead plants, oil and coal but if you get a calculator, you can calculate when we will attain type 1 stad : The answer is in about a hundred years, we will become planetary. We will be able to harness all the energy out but out the planet Earth? We’ll play with the weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, anything planetary we will play with.
The dange period is now, because we still have the savagery, we will have the passions, we have all the sectarian, fundamentalist ideas circulating around.
But we also have nuclear weapons, we have chemicals, biological weapons capable of wiping out life on Earth.
So I see two trends in the world today : The 1st trens is toward a multicultural, scientific power in society and everywhere I go I see aspects of that birth. For example, what is the internet ? Many people