{"id":525,"date":"2011-06-16T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2011-06-16T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T15:17:25","slug":"book-review-kakus-physics-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Kaku&#8217;s Physics of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8492907-physics-of-the-future\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1283289312m\/8492907.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8492907-physics-of-the-future\">Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/18800.Michio_Kaku\">Michio Kaku<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/173316390\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>this was an entertaining read.  But I wouldn&#8217;t call this a science book.  Maybe science fiction.  Maybe fluff.  It is entertaining.  I found myself annoyed at some of the &#8220;linguistics of the future&#8221; attempts (such a word will disappear from the language..) and some very basic bad science popping in &#8212; I remember one specific phrase about the level of a society will be measured by &#8220;electrons flowing in the fiber optic cables&#8221; &#8212; parse that again for me?!?  I found this to be speculation, too much ego, and not enough physics (to include that in the title).  A better title would be &#8220;My Imagined Future&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/3346363-matt-heavner\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100 by Michio Kaku My rating: 2 of 5 stars this was an entertaining read. But I wouldn&#8217;t call this a science book. Maybe science fiction. Maybe fluff. It is entertaining. I found myself annoyed at some of the &#8220;linguistics of the future&#8221; attempts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review: Kaku&#8217;s Physics of the Future&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-8t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}