Michio Kaku about future civilization

Michio Kaku talks about the future of civilization.

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• 2008

[aiiiunluckykid]

Zeitgiest movement!

[CyborgSamurai]

@TheQ3XXX

Or, you could flip fate the bird and give it a shot. Rework the broken systems, purge civilization of self-rewarding organizations, and put some effort into changing the world rather than say it's pointless. If you fail, well, you end up dying with your stagnant species, just as you would if you tried nothing at all. So why not make an attempt, right?

[temudjin1155]

"These are the terrorists"... And what if they were just resistants ?

IMO, that guy is just insane

[TheWisemonkey8]

3:20 ...

[andrethuo1]

What !!?!?!

[kurtilein3]

@TheQ3XXX

Thanks, that really explains it. I hope that debt-based bona fide currency will some day be a thing of the past. But i worry that gold has been tinkered with by finance for so long, maybe a different element would be better. On the other hand, the rate at which gold is being recycled is incredible. I wish boron would be recycled like that (it has a comparable value-to-weight ratio). But noone buys broken iphone glass or broken heat-resistant glass containing boron.

[kurtilein3]

@TheQ3XXX

your earlier comments imply that you think that a purely debt-based bona fide currency isnt good, and wont allow a type1 economy. But what other options are there? Bona fide currencies still need to be based on something, and that something is debt, and thats the problem. A currency based on a commodity is not based on debt, but you also dont like the idea of using gold as a currency. What do you suggest then? What would a currency look like that would work for type1?

[kurtilein3]

@newsearching

i always have to think about HAL-9000 in 2001: a space odyssey and the sequel, 2010.

[newsearching]

@kurtilein3 lol that sounds like either Ghost in the Shell or Terminator.

[kurtilein3]

@TheQ3XXX

read or watch what Stephen Pinker has to say about violence. There are several good talks on youtube, the TEDtalk by Stephen Pinker is a good starting point. And dont forget to tell me what you think after hearing his arguments :)

I think we can progress into something better, and are in the process of doing so.

[kurtilein3]

@newsearching

right now, its a matter of cultural evolution. But soon we will create artificial minds that run as programs on supercomputers. The effects of that will be dramatic, but im not sure what will happen. I think then human civilisation and the population of artificial minds will run alongside for a while, one accelerating the other.

The first artificial minds might go online within the next 10 years. If thats really true, then i will witness extraordinary changes in human culture.

[kurtilein3]

@TheQ3XXX

what if a transition will happen back to something like a gold standart, linking currencies to limited commodities? Valuable, useful and rare Elements could serve as the basis for currencies. Gold, copper, silver, tungsten, palladium, boron. You criticize Kaku for what he says, but he did not say anything about currencies. Maybe he was more thinking about the european parliament, legitimized by elections in all member states, and the euro, and all the borders that went away.