However, I found it was a little to hard to speak on this subject because of my lack of research; thus I turned to questioning our future. I stumbled upon the famous Michio Kaku discussing what our civilization's future holds. For Professor Kaku, we have two options, maybe three, but he focuses on two, Type 1 civilization (planetary) and Type 2 civilization (stellar). By his calculations we are about 100 years away from a Type 1 civilization. Currently we sit at a Type 0 civilization, we depend on dead plants, crude oil, and so on to fuel our countries. I hope, we can evolve into this ideal Type 1 civilization, where we can harness the earth's power, in a sense we become planetary. However, as Mr. Herman enjoys to point out, though we may have this technology soon, we also do have the ability to wipe ourselves out.
Professor Kaku believes that we are beginning to make steps towards this planetary civilization. He uses the Internet as an a example. The Internet portrays the ubiquitous nature of our languages, but the idea of ubiquity applies to the majority of things today: fashion, sports, music, and so on. The opposing side is portrayed as terrorism, groups that intend to destroy and leads us away from Type 1. Terrorist, not like what American perceives, want a monoculture.
Here is where I step back from the article, I hope we reach a Type 1 and further to a Type 2, but the idea that terrorist wanting a monoculture and less science I disagree with. While today we have the people who oppose science because of ethics and morals, I have an issue with more of the monoculture idea. If we all wear the same clothes, if we all listen to the same music, and if we all speak the same language, are we no in a monoculture? I believe that Professor Kaku is speaking upon say we have Korean music and Koreans listen to American music, but are we all not listening to the same thing? Rather than 100 years as Professor Kaku predicts, we are much further away from Type 1. The idea of terrorism is yes of the bombings, but of also the immaturity of the race as a whole. We have the power to destroy, but we have not realized that we have the ability to grow as well. I do not know if we will become this Type 1 or become extinct like myriads of other Type 0 civilizations. Once we realize that we cannot continue to depend on dead plants and that we need to evolve, then maybe we can become a Type 1. Sorry to sound so skeptic, but I do not see our race continuing until we learn. Maybe it is our morals and ethics that stand in our way, maybe anxiety towards change, I have no idea, but change is necessary or the Internet will become in vain and we will have fulfilled the prophecy of destroying ourselves.
