Physics of The Future Chapter 7: Future of Wealth

Okay so today I am reviewing chapter seven of Michio Kaku's Physics of the Future(ISBN 978-0-385-53080-4), and the topic is Future of Wealth. Wealth is all about luck, probability, chance, hard work and effort. Michio Kaku says that for every technology there is four stages. They are born, evolve, rise, and fall. One common example of this principle is paper. Discovery in the olden time of papyrus reed paper was so precious it was guarded, it was born. Later paper was made with trees and different methods were used to treat it to prevent it from rotting, it evolved. Later it was used in printing presses and in copier machines. Now paper is so useful, yet useless you can find it anywhere, everywhere, and it is waste also, at the same time. This makes the invention of paper fall. This works with every invented product. Same goes with electricity. It is discovered, and is precious. It is used in light-bulbs and cars and its use evolves. It is used in daily life everywhere to keep civilization going. It is so common we decorate our houses and signs with electrical flashes and lights. The Internet was born , and is now in the evolving stage, Stage II. A Dr.Pepper commercial poster shown below shows a comical version of our evolution. In it, it only shows three stages before, discovery, and after discovery.

All these new technologies, while bringing greater also bring greater value and great wealth to human society. They also produce knowledge that will remain with us forever. In the future an imaginative, scientific and creative mind is wealth. These minds will create inventions that bring the rise of human evolution. In the future many countries will have amassed massive amounts of wealth while others won't. With more and more technology creative brains will become wealth. This is because newer, improved inventions will hold value in the world, and in companies. The people you see around you could either be inventors, with creative brains, and lots of knowledge. They could also make the population of laborers and workers. But without creative inventing minds, we will cease to exist. This is a common problem coming from the next generation. People who are smart want to do little and settle into rich lives, with huge loads of wealth sitting idle and growing with interest. We need to work for better inventors and scientists in the world, because they are both our only chance, and our only wealth.