By John Brown
Huge changes are coming to our world soon.
They’re going to affect your health, wealth, and job. They’re
going to take us back into space and make us live longer. They are changes that
almost blow the mind. And they’ve already begun.
Michio Kaku is a world-renowned physicist that has always
been fascinated with all sorts of science. And in Physics of the Future, he looks at what’s currently happening
in computing, robotics, biotechnology, medicine, energy, and engineering, and
explains how it’s going to affect our daily life between now and 2030, 2030 to
2070, and 2070 to 2100.
The insights are awesome. The book’s a feast. Page after
page.
Did you know, for example, that there are parts of our DNA
that have genes for certain traits, but those genes are turned off? For
example, humans have genes for growing fur all over our bodies, but they’re
turned off. Snakes have genes for legs that have been turned off. Chickens, one
of the distant progeny of the dinosaurs, have genes for growing tooth buds in
their beaks (imagine the grandchildren being chased by one of those bad boys).
There are many more such dormant genes, and in the not too distant future,
we’ll be able to turn them on.
Did you know that today we can regrow organs? So far
scientists can grow skin, blood, blood vessels, heart valves, cartilage, bone,
noses, and ears from your own cells. They’ve be able to grow windpipes and
bladders. Imagine damaging your eye and being able to grow a new one that your
body won’t reject.
Did you know that we’ve already been able to hook people up
so they can move objects with their minds?
And what about computers and robots? Many futurists fear the
robots will become smarter than us and take over the world. Will they? Kaku
explains why this isn’t likely with the technology we currently have and what
really makes up intelligence.
These are just a couple of the dozens of thrilling topics
Kaku explores. And he makes it all so easy to understand and entertaining.
A new world is coming, full of perils and exciting
opportunities. An Kaku gives us an intelligent sneak peek.
If you wonder what our world will be like in the near
future, if you enjoy science and technology, if you want to be informed, then
you will love this book. When you finish it, you can then move onto his book The
Future of Humanity, which delves deeper into what we can expect in the
near future in space. You can then move to The Future of the Mind, in which he explores
in more detail what we can expect in understanding, enhancing, and empowering
our minds.
I’m not a handy man. I’d like to be one. I respect folks who
know how to fix things immensely. But I have a million other things on my plate
and don’t have the time to learn how to be one. And so when our oven and gas
range started having problems, I was staring at spending around $2,000 to
replace it.
But then I found Service
Depot in Logan, Utah. They do handyman, appliance, HVAC, and plumbing
repairs. I called them. They send out someone all the way to Bear Lake to look
at the issue and give me a bid. He was clean-cut and smiling. When I invited
him in, he stopped to put booties on to make sure he didn’t track dirt into my
house. We arranged an appointment, and a few days later another fellow who was
equally clean-cut and pleasant to deal with showed up and fixed the range for
about one-fourth of what it would have cost to replace it.
These folks were prompt to respond, friendly, and bootied.
If you need repairs done around your house, my experience with them was great.
If you enjoy ice cream and are in the Bear Lake area, I have
two recommendations. For soft-serve shakes and cones, you can’t do better than Zips in Garden City. Some soft-serve is
icy and thin. Not enjoyable at all. But Zips uses a soft-serve ice cream with a
higher fat content, which makes it deliciously smooth and creamy. And when you
add flavors—oh baby! We recently went there as a family and got shakes. They
have a lot of different flavors, but I got the Nutella and pretzel mix and floated up a bit toward heaven. If you
like chocolate at all, you have to try that shake.
The other place is in Laketown. The Sinclair gas station
turned their old car wash into a hard ice cream shop called, ta-dum, The Car Wash Ice Cream Shop. It’s
bright and clean. The youth scooping the ice cream there are smiling and
friendly. And they have a flavor called Coconut
Castaway that’s scrumptious. Think of a Mounds chocolate bar, but in ice
cream. More heavenly floating. What makes it even better are the reasonable
prices.
If you’re in the mood for ice cream, if you want to get a
bit closer to heaven, then do yourself a favor and get yourself to one of these
shops.
