<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49127551-2030">2030 </a>uses the current trajectory of the world, based on sociological, demographic, and technological trends, to outline the changes we can expect to happen in our lives by the beginning of the next decade.

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If you told someone in 2019 about everything that would happen in 2020, they might not believe you. Who could’ve predicted this one year would bring a novel global pandemic, raging wildfires, a stock market crash, and worldwide racial justice protests, and much more? In these unprecedented times, it’s more important than ever to have an idea of what’s coming so we can prepare. Of course, things like a pandemic can’t really be predicted. But there is a way to make informed predictions about some things that might be headed our way.

In the book <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49127551-2030">2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything </a>by <a href="http://www.mauroguillen.com/about/">Mauro F. Guillen </a>, we get informed predictions of where today’s trends will put us by the year 2030. Using a range of current demographic and sociological trends along with new technological advancements, Guillen gives a convincing portrait of what the next decade holds for our world.

Some predictions include a drastic demographic change because of low birth rates, increased middle class, increased female <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/7-strategies-for-wealth-and-happiness-summary/">wealth </a>, climate change that will affect city life, and exciting technological advancements. His detailed predictions will give you a great resource for preparing for the exciting and not-so-excited changes coming our way in the next decade.

<ol><li>Our world will never be the same again because of declining birth rates. </li><li>In 2030, women will have more than half of the world’s wealth. </li><li>Cryptocurrency will continue to rise in popularity, and by 2030 we might tap into its full potential. </li> </ol>

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A little more than 50 years ago, many people were worried about the prospect of overpopulation. With the declining birth rate, this isn’t as much of a concern for most people. Guillen argues that what we should be worried about in the next decade is actually the opposite: a baby drought.  Since the 1970s, US women have, on average, had fewer than two kids each. So basically, we don’t even have enough children to replace the current generation at the current rate.

Lesson 1:  Declining birth rates are making our world change permanently.

Why does this matter? Some people might say that this could be a good thing because of our planet’s limited resources. However, the economic system we have is reliant on the next generation if we are going to take care of the elderly. Their taxes are desperately needed to help foot the bill for the aging generation’s pensions.

The reason the birth rate has declined dramatically is that there are more women in the workforce.  Because those women are actively working, they are more likely to wait until they are established in their field before having children. Because fertility drops with <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/the-age-of-cryptocurrency-summary/">age </a>, they tend to have fewer children if they decide to start a family.

But that’s not the only reason. People are also having less sex. The Archives of Sexual Behavior published a study that found that in the 2010s, Americans had sex nine times less per year on average than in the 1990s. Why? Part of this has to do with the fact that technology means we now have many more enjoyable distractions in our homes. Sex is just one enjoyable thing we can choose from to do on a night in.

But not every country is experiencing this drastic decline in birth rates. There is currently a population boom in sub-Saharan Africa. The author says this will have two effects in the next decade. Because this part of the continent relies on imported food, markets for food and developing agriculture in this area will become a trillion-dollar sector. Second, Western nations might have to change stances on immigration because they might need to bring in immigrant workers from this area to care for and fund the huge growth in retirees.

One major change coming in 2030 is that women will hold more than half of the world’s wealth for the first time. Right now, women in the workplace face some big challenges when it comes to wealth advancement. Many women are also primary caregivers to children and family members. When she is a primary caregiver, a woman often loses a few years of work, which means missing out on salary advances that male counterparts enjoy.

Lesson 2:  Women will have over 50% of the world’s wealth by 2030.

But the good news for working women is that the pool of qualified workers will shrink thanks to the combination of low birth rates and an aging population. This change means that businesses will start relying on working caregivers more than they ever have.

Gallup polls report that we’re increasingly ready for this shift in working women. A recent poll shows we are more positively disposed toward women who hold positions of <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/the-power-of-no-summary/">power </a>than ever. Increased numbers of working women and women in leadership positions mean women will have more wealth than ever in the coming decade.

With this change comes changes in global spending. Drawing from research on female spending habits, the author predicts this change will mean we will see increases in spending on education, health care, and insurance. Typically, women have been bigger spenders in this area. When it comes to investments, women will likely go for safer investments such as index funds.

As technology moves forward, money is also changing. People are increasingly comfortable with more abstract forms of money. The next potential revolution in money is cryptocurrency. While Bitcoin might seem a little bit too on the fringe for your average person, by 2030, the author predicts cryptocurrencies will become mainstream. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin work completely online through a peer-to-peer system. Bitcoin isn’t associated with any government or even any bank. All transactions are available online for the public. They are shown on the public record called a blockchain.

Lesson 3:  In the next few years, cryptocurrency’s influence will rise.

Each block is a recorded transaction, and they are all strung together to make an encrypted blockchain. The blockchain’s code means it cannot be tampered with because it would be immediately known. This makes it the world’s most secure form of currency.  Even though it comes from solid technology, people are still mostly sticking to bank accounts rather than switching to crypto. It’s understandable since its valuation is always fluctuating all over the place.

But blockchain technology has huge potential to revolutionize money as we know it. It would mean no more middlemen to process transactions and no more money controlled by banks and governments. It could also help us be more ethical in our spending.

An example of this is Dexio, an app that uses the <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/blockchain-revolution-summary/">blockchain </a>to track diamond transactions so consumers can avoid buying blood diamonds. The technology could also make e-voting more secure as well as decrease online piracy. This is one of the many ways cryptocurrency could completely change money as we know it; if only we can finally embrace it.

I love speculating about the future, so naturally, I really enjoyed <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49127551-2030">2030 </a>. The great thing about this book is that it’s not just guessing, but the authors base the information on current trends in society. I can’t wait to see how things actually shake out over the next 10 years!

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The 27-year-old that works in the tech industry and wants to stay ahead, the 65-year-old who feels behind because of the accelerating changes they’ve seen in the world throughout their lifetime, and anyone curious to know what the future holds.

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The 2030 Summary explains the speculation of future by using the current trajectory in the world, and outlining changes we expect to happen.

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He published his for essential paper all in his one miracle year of 1905.He was 'meh' at poetry or violin playing. He refused the job of being the Israel's president (he didn't quite fit the job profile now, did he, with all that wild hair). :))

Was Einstein really all that smart?

Words cam with difficulty to him, but images came easier.He wasn’t mathematically brilliant, but could pull his weight. He was different. He had a clear way of thinking that wouldn’t register on an intelligence test. His first paper on special theory of relativity  can be understood by ordinary mortals: no jargon, just simple ideas, inescapable logic. Just brilliant in its simplicity.

Einstein was a bit of a weirdo.

He ran little experiments. At age 16 he wondered about riding alongside a ray of light. What does light look light for a moving observer? Light would always look like it was moving at the same speed. Other's were thinking about this also, but his thoughts were more visual.When thinking about theory of gravity, he imagined riding a falling elevator. He was also extremely stubborn. He didn't trust experiments not confirming his ideas. Trusting his instincts was mostly correct.

Einstein's way of thinking

Einstein seems like this larger than life figure, but his weirdness makes him likeable. Makes him more human and approachable.

How did a man who had been working as a patent clerk publish four groundbreaking papers about space, time, atoms and the strange nature of light -- all in one year? A look at Albert Einstein's unique intelligence. 

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When I wrote The Global Brain, forty years ago, we were in the very early stages of computer networking. These early networks soon became the Internet, and later the Worldwide Web. From that came a whole plethora of innovations: streaming video, online shopping, news and banking, social media, the cloud, and more; not to mention the now ubiquitous website. However, it was generally just data, spread over a global network, one as complex as the human brain with exceedingly efficient search, but still just information of one kind or another.

Forty Years Ago

Now a whole new dimension is being added: AI (artificial intelligence). It has been there behind the scenes for several years, but is now becoming available to the everyday user.A language processing AI called GPT-3, which can process this global data and summarize it in good English (and several other languages) is now catching the headlines in the form of ChatGPT—an app that anyone can access, ask questions, and get remarkably good answers. You can, for example, ask it write an essay about some specialist scientific subject, and be blown away by the results.

A Whole New Dimension

Write a poem about spiritual concept in the style of Shakespeare (say). Or find an error in your computer code. The possibilities seem almost endless. ChatGPT was only made public in November, but it has already taken the Internet by storm—within five days of its release it had a million users!As well as a multitude of possibilities, it raises a number of issues: How will teachers be able to detect if a student’s essay is their own work or that of ChatGPT? Can we trust its answers (it sometimes makes mistakes)? GPT-3 was trained on the global data of 2021, so cannot give up-to-date responses.

ChatGPT

Currently, it is very expensive to operate; will that limit its development? Will it be integrated into search engines? Could it be hacked? Will it reinforce our socio-political biases?Some of these issues may be resolved over time. Some may not. But here I want to explore some of the longer-term implications.The next obvious step is adding audio so that we can speak to it and get spoken responses. The technologies of speech recognition and synthesis are well developed, and in common use with virtual assistants such Siri and Alexa.

The Next Obvious Step 

But whereas they currently just search the Internet for answers, now, with AI behind them, they’ll be able to process the data, and give more intelligent responses.It will also bring an end to those, sometimes frustrating, human-operated call centers. No longer will we have to wait on hold, but will get immediate, intelligent answers—and in an accent we can understand.ChatGPT wasn’t programmed with the answers it gives, but taught to find its own answers and present them in human language. And it is learning all the time, from what we ask and how we respond.

More Intelligent Responses

Impressive as it may be today, it will be much more so in the future. In addition, other apps will soon become available improving on ChatGPT.As it becomes increasingly conversational, we may begin to feel there is a “person” there, not a human person of course, but our minds will project on to the AI the sense of there being someone there, and available to us at any time. Maybe we’ll feel we are each accessing the same virtual person. Where will that lead, I wonder? Other forms of AI can also be accessed online.

A "Person" There

There are several images generators that will create excellent pictures based on simple descriptions. A number of video generators—although not yet high quality—and music generators. All of which will rapidly improve with time.Beyond these foreseeable developments, online AI will bring many innovations that are probably as far beyond our imagination as the Internet of today was when the first personal computers appeared. And remember that the pace of development today is very much faster than it was forty years ago.

A Faster Pace

In ten years’ time, AI will be much more powerful, perhaps surpassing the human brain in its capabilities. We will then be in a very different world indeed.Welcome to the Intelligence Age!-------At this unprecedented moment in history, when escalating crises threaten all life on earth, internationally renowned physicist and futurist Peter Russell weaves together the physical and social sciences, modern technology, and ancient mysticism to demonstrate that the possibility of global illumination is now as real -- and as imminent -- as the threat of mass annihilation.

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In this updated edition of The Global Brain, Russell details an extraordinary new vision of humanity's potential as a fully conscious superorganism in an awakening universe. Presenting evidence that the earth itself is a living being and every person upon it a cell in the planetary nervous system, Russell describes how breakthroughs in telecommunications and computer networks are rapidly linking the human species into an embryonic global brain.

The Global Brain

At the same time, the human potential movement is growing faster than any other segment of society and influencing every aspect of the culture -- including business, politics, and medicine. Russell shows how the convergence of these powerful trends is creating the required conditions for an evolutionary shift in consciousness from egocentrism to geo-centrism.

Human Potential

First published in 1983 as The Global Brain and translated into ten languages, Russell's seminal work won acclaim all over the world. Regarded by many as years ahead of its time, its original predictions about the impact of computer networks and changing social values were quickly fulfilled.Peter Russell M.A., D.C.S., is a British author of ten books and producer of three films on consciousness, spiritual awakening and their role in the future development of humanity. He has designed and taught personal development programs for businesses, and has remained a popular public speaker.

Published in 1983 

In 1965 he was awarded an Open Exhibition to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, to study Mathematics. In 1969, he gained a First Class Honours in Theoretical Physics and Experimental Psychology. He then went to Rishikesh, India, where he trained as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In 1971, he gained a post-graduate degree in Computer Science. From 1971 to 1974, he studied for a Ph.D. on the psychophysiology of meditation at Bristol University.

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Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer. <a href="https://aeon.co/users/robert-epstein">Robert Epstein</a> is a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California. He is the author of 15 books, and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today.

Brain is not a Computer

No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli.The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain most of the things people think it does – not even simple things such as ‘memories’.

No Memories

Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused.For more than half a century now, psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists and other experts on human behaviour have been asserting that the human brain works like a computer.To see how vacuous this idea is, consider the brains of babies. Thanks to evolution, human neonates, like the newborns of all other mammalian species, enter the world prepared to interact with it effectively.

Historical Roots

A baby’s vision is blurry, but it pays special attention to faces, and is quickly able to identify its mother’s. It prefers the sound of voices to non-speech sounds, and can distinguish one basic speech sound from another. We are, without doubt, built to make social connections. A healthy newborn is also equipped with more than a dozen reflexes – ready-made reactions to certain stimuli that are important for its survival.It turns its head in the direction of something that brushes its cheek and then sucks whatever enters its mouth.

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It holds its breath when submerged in water. It grasps things placed in its hands so strongly it can nearly support its own weight.Perhaps most important, newborns come equipped with powerful learning mechanisms that allow them to change rapidly so they can interact increasingly effectively with their world, even if that world is unlike the one their distant ancestors faced.Senses, reflexes and learning mechanisms – this is what we start with, and it is quite a lot, when you think about it. If we lacked any of these capabilities at birth, we would probably have trouble surviving.

Learning Mechanisms

But here is what we are not born with: information, data, rules, software, knowledge, lexicons, representations, algorithms, programs, models, memories, images, processors, subroutines, encoders, decoders, symbols, or buffers – design elements that allow digital computers to behave somewhat intelligently. Not only are we not born with such things, we also don’t develop them – ever. We don’t store words or the rules that tell us how to manipulate them.

Not Born With ...

We don’t create representations of visual stimuli, store them in a short-term memory buffer, and then transfer the representation into a long-term memory device. We don’t retrieve information or images or words from memory registers. Computers do all of these things, but organisms do not.Computers, quite literally, process information – numbers, letters, words, formulas, images. The information first has to be encoded into a format computers can use, which means patterns of ones and zeroes (‘bits’) organised into small chunks (‘bytes’).

Bits & Bytes

On my computer, each byte contains 8 bits, and a certain pattern of those bits stands for the letter d, another for the letter o, and another for the letter g. Side by side, those three bytes form the word dog. One single image – say, the photograph of my cat Henry on my desktop – is represented by a very specific pattern of a million of these bytes (‘one megabyte’), surrounded by some special characters that tell the computer to expect an image, not a word.Computers, quite literally, move these patterns from place to place in different physical storage areas etched into electronic components.

Three Bytes Form the Word Dog

Sometimes they also copy the patterns, and sometimes they transform them in various ways – say, when we are correcting errors in a manuscript or when we are touching up a photograph. The rules computers follow for moving, copying and operating on these arrays of data are also stored inside the computer. Together, a set of rules is called a ‘program’ or an ‘algorithm’. A group of algorithms that work together to help us do something (like buy stocks or find a date online) is called an ‘application’ – what most people now call an ‘app’.

App is an Application

Forgive me for this introduction to computing, but I need to be clear: computers really do operate on symbolic representations of the world. They really store and retrieve. They really process. They really have physical memories. They really are guided in everything they do, without exception, by algorithms.Humans, on the other hand, do not – never did, never will. Given this reality, why do so many scientists talk about our mental life as if we were computers?

Our Mental Life

In his book In Our Own Image (2015), the artificial intelligence expert George Zarkadakis describes six different metaphors people have employed over the past 2,000 years to try to explain human intelligence.In the earliest one, eventually preserved in the Bible, humans were formed from clay or dirt, which an intelligent god then infused with its spirit. That spirit ‘explained’ our intelligence – grammatically, at least.

Six Different Metaphors

The invention of hydraulic engineering in the 3rd century BCE led to the popularity of a hydraulic model of human intelligence, the idea that the flow of different fluids in the body – the ‘humours’ – accounted for both our physical and mental functioning. The hydraulic metaphor persisted for more than 1,600 years, handicapping medical practice all the while.By the 1500s, automata powered by springs and gears had been devised, eventually inspiring leading thinkers such as René Descartes to assert that humans are complex machines.

Humans Are Complex Machines

In the 1600s, the British philosopher Thomas Hobbes suggested that thinking arose from small mechanical motions in the brain. By the 1700s, discoveries about electricity and chemistry led to new theories of human intelligence – again, largely metaphorical in nature. In the mid-1800s, inspired by recent advances in communications, the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz compared the brain to a telegraph.

The Brain Like a Telegraph

The mathematician John von Neumann stated flatly that the function of the human nervous system is ‘prima facie digital’, drawing parallel after parallel between the components of the computing machines of the day and the components of the human brain.Each metaphor reflected the most advanced thinking of the era that spawned it. Predictably, just a few years after the dawn of computer technology in the 1940s, the brain was said to operate like a computer, with the role of physical hardware played by the brain itself and our thoughts serving as software.

Prima Facie Digital

The landmark event that launched what is now broadly called ‘cognitive science’ was the publication of Language and Communication (1951) by the psychologist George Miller. Miller proposed that the mental world could be studied rigorously using concepts from information theory, computation and linguistics.This kind of thinking was taken to its ultimate expression in the short book The Computer and the Brain (1958), in which the mathematician John von Neumann stated flatly that the function of the human nervous system is ‘prima facie digital’.

Cognitive Science

Although he acknowledged that little was actually known about the role the brain played in human reasoning and memory, he drew parallel after parallel between the components of the computing machines of the day and the components of the human brain.

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Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

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Future humans terraform a planet and, through an unfortunate accident, infect it with a nano-virus that significantly accelerate the evolution of spiders. With their new found biological advantages, the spiders evolve from a species of lonely predators into a space traveling civilisation.While the spiders were on the fast track of evolution, we follow the wondering of the last humans, traveling in an ark-ship called Ghilghames, in search of a new home.The book ends with an epic conflict between the last humans and the new sentient spiders.

The Premise of Children of Time

Adrian Tarkovsky's book reads like a traditional space opera from the golden age of SF. What sets it apart is the focus on biology, as the author carefully documents how a spider civilisation could look like:<ul><li>the spiders didn't use speech but communicated through vibrations and scents</li><li>knowledge was passed through genetics, rather written word</li><li>wars were won by reprogramming the enemies rather than exterminating them.</li><li>since the spiders lived on a new planet, there were no fossil fuels so the scientific revolution of the spiders was different than others</li><li>the early spider civilisation was matriarchal </li></ul>

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Since the book spans thousands of years, documenting the evolution of the spiders could have turned boring pretty fast. But the spider history arc is told using the same archetypal characters. We follow Portia, the adventurous spider, Bianca, the heretic or Fabian, the only male character. Using the same names for the spider heroes is more than a trick. It makes sense in the lore of the book because the spiders evolved by passing their innovation (called the Understanding) to their offsprings. So there is a genetical timeline continuation to the main characters ... over thousands of years.

Archetypal Permanence

“Life is not perfect, individuals will always be flawed, but empathy – the sheer inability to see those around them as anything other than people too – conquers all, in the end.”

An original space opera, where instead of aliens we have a human created specie of sentient spiders. Light, fast paced reading. 

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home. Following their ancestors' star maps, they discovered the greatest treasure of a past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course and must fight to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

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The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

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Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is known for his innovative and forward-thinking approach to business and technology. In addition to his work in the tech industry, Musk is also an avid reader and has recommended a number of books to his followers and the public. These books cover a range of topics, including science, technology, business, and more, and offer insights and inspiration for anyone looking to make a positive impact in their field. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at some of the books that Elon Musk has recommended and provide some context for why they might be worth reading.

Zero to One is a book written by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir. In the book, Thiel argues that the key to building a successful business is to create something new and valuable, rather than simply competing in an already crowded market. He calls this the “zero to one” concept, as it involves going from nothing to creating something new.

Zero To One 

Our Final Invention is a book written by James Barrat that explores the potential risks and consequences of artificial intelligence (AI). The book raises the question of whether AI could eventually surpass human intelligence and become a threat to the survival of humanity.One of the main arguments of the book is that as AI continues to advance and become more sophisticated, it could potentially surpass human intelligence and become a formidable and uncontroll force.

Our Final Invention by James Barrat 

is a biography of one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, written by historian Walter Isaacson. The book provides a detailed and engaging account of Franklin’s life, from his humble beginnings as a printer’s apprentice to his role as one of the most influential figures in American history.

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life 

It is a science fiction comedy novel written by Douglas Adams. The book follows the adventures of an unlikely group of characters as they travel through the universe, encountering strange and absurd creatures and situations along the way.One of the key strengths of the book is its wit and humor. Adams has a knack for creating hilarious and absurd situations, and his writing is full of clever wordplay and hilarious one-liners.

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Elon musk a billionaire and an avid reader has shared his books to read for those who wants to be innovators and have visions as wild and as successful as him. 

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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57134292-the-code-breaker">The Code Breaker </a>details the life of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna, who embarked on — and successfully completed — a journey to invent a tool that allows us to edit the human genetic code and thus will change our lives, health, and future generations forever.

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Science is a fascinating field of interest. Biology, in particular, is responsible for the way we live our life today. From the moment we wake up and wash away the germs off our hands, faces, and teeth, to the very last moment of our day. We do things a certain way. That’s because people who lived before us realized this is the right way to do them. We attribute some of the world’s biggest discoveries to these people. And fortunately, we now have a few more names to add to the list of scientists who made groundbreaking discoveries.

<ol><li>Doudna and Charpentier discovered a potential cure for cancer. </li><li>CRISPR technology can help us cure diseases, but it comes with an ethical cost. </li><li>This emerging technology could lead to biohacking and have some pretty serious implications. </li> </ol>

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The potential of <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/a-crack-in-creation-summary/">CRISPR technology </a>is vast, and it’s only going to get better. We can already understand viruses thanks to CRISPR, which means that we can potentially cure cancer.  The CRISPR system is a natural defense mechanism found in certain bacteria which we can use for protection against viruses. It works by remembering how a <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/the-hot-zone-summary/">virus </a>looks and operates and transcribing its code into the bacteria’s genes to fight it if it returns.

Lesson 1:  CRISPR technology could potentially cure cancer, as we can already understand viruses thanks to it  .

This allows the bacteria to destroy the virus without damaging themselves later on. Scientists have harnessed this system for their own purposes. They can create artificial RNA molecules that will bind to specific sequences of DNA. This allows them to edit genes or remove unwanted parts altogether.  We can use this to cure diseases like cancer by removing harmful mutations from our genetic code or even help us respond better to viral infections by editing our immune system’s response so that it doesn’t attack healthy cells along with invading pathogens.

The CRISPR-Cas9 system is a way of editing <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/the-double-helix-summary/">genes </a>in order to cure diseases or other genetic defects. It has been used to treat congenital blindness and sickle cell disease, among other things.  However, there are still many areas where this technology is not particularly useful for humans. For example, we have not yet been able to successfully use CRISPR on human embryos on a large scale because it would cause unintended changes in the embryo’s DNA that could lead to birth defects.

Lesson 2:  CRISPR is a biological weapon, an ethical issue, and a revolutionary concept  .

Some people are already thinking of CRISPR as a new tool to shape children according to the parent’s preferences. Some would be given superpowers (like the “designer babies” that were created to be <a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/the-beautiful-cure-summary/">immune </a>to HIV), while some could be the result of harmful revenge.  This means that we can use CRISPR as a tool to repair certain diseases or get rid of them for good, but we cannot yet use it as an alternative method of reproduction. CRISPR remains both an ethical and a biological challenge.

<a href="https://fourminutebooks.com/super-human-summary/">Biohacking </a>involves the use of biology and biotechnology to alter the genetic makeup of a living organism in order to cause harm or enhance its abilities. As technology continues to advance at an exponential rate, it becomes easier for hackers to modify their bodies with nanotechnology and gene therapy in order to gain superhuman abilities.  These abilities include increased strength and speed; regeneration from wounds, resistance to disease, increased intelligence, and many others.

Lesson 3:  This groundbreaking discovery will shape our entire future, the author thinks  .

It seems that we’re starting to see the potential for biohacking to become a major threat to security and privacy because it could be used for nefarious purposes like weaponizing viruses or creating new bioweapons. One thing that makes biohacking so threatening is how easy it is to do. Unlike traditional computer hacking, which requires specialized knowledge and expensive equipment, anyone with even a basic understanding of biology can perform their own experiments at home with nothing more than a few basic tools.

Unfortunately, some of these tools are already sold on the market, and CRISPR technology is pretty popular among these individuals.

CRISPR has the potential to cause huge positive changes in the world, and even shape the future of humanity – literally! <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57134292-the-code-breaker">The Code Breakers </a>shows just how powerful this technology is, and how science played a crucial role in the development of humans and nations. However, if we are not careful enough, this technology may surpass us, and the implications can be catastrophic.

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Still, science is vital for evolution, and CRISPR could be the revolution we so desperately needed to fight grave diseases. If you want some food for thought, I highly recommend this book, as it’ll pose some pretty serious life questions for anyone who dares to read it.

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These 10 genius Stephen Hawking quotes will inspire you.

Hawking's influence exceeded the field of science.

The theoretical physicist, best known for his work in cosmology (<a href="http://www.hawking.org.uk/into-a-black-hole.html">particularly with black holes </a>), was both a visionary and an inspiration. Outside his vast intelligence (of which he was very modest, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/what-stephen-hawkings-iq-score-late-physicist-called-people-who-care-losers-843895">once saying that people who boasted about IQs were losers </a>), he was also a study in resilience and perseverance.At the age of 21, Hawking was diagnosed with <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2018-03-14/stephen-hawking-als-how-he-outlived-his-prognosis-for-so-long/9548110">amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) </a>. The disease progresses quickly, and Hawking was given only a short time to live, but he survived for decades and stayed mobile with use of a wheelchair.

Stephen Hawking, universally beloved scientist

"Although there was a cloud hanging over my future," <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76">Hawking said of his diagnosis </a>,"I found, to my surprise, that I was enjoying life in the present more than before. I began to make progress with my research."

Hawking never stopped working 

In 1988, Hawking published "A Brief History of Time," which accomplished, as <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-a-brief-history-of-time-book-theoretical-physics-why-good-a8255251.html">The Independent </a>notes, the "impossible" tasks of not only taking the entire history of time and space and relating it all in just one volume but also making it easy to read and understand for everyone — not just fellow scientists."However, if we discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable by everyone, not just by a few scientists," <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-a-brief-history-of-time-book-theoretical-physics-why-good-a8255251.html">Hawking wrote at the end of the book </a>.

"However, if we discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable by everyone, not just by a few scientists," <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking-a-brief-history-of-time-book-theoretical-physics-why-good-a8255251.html">Hawking wrote at the end of the book </a>. "Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God."“My goal is simple," <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/stephen_hawking_124516">Hawking said of his work </a>. "It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

He will be deeply missed. And as the celebration of his life flows on social media — <a href="https://twitter.com/mikecavalier/status/973772804515598337">who could forget the time he threw a party for time travelers and no one showed up </a>— we're celebrating Hawking's contributions to this world with some of his most inspirational quotes, the ones that remind us to look forward, look upward, and never forget the common humanity we all share.These 10 genius Stephen Hawking quotes will inspire you.

Hawking was an inspiration for us all.

"Be curious. However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."-Stephen Hawking

1. On moving forward in the face of adversity:

"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."-Stephen Hawking

2. On the importance of a sense of humor:

"It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love."-Stephen Hawking

3. On the universe:

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."-Stephen Hawking

4. On what makes humans unique:

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”

5. On the power of communication: 

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."-Stephen Hawking

6. On the true meaning of intelligence:

"I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."-Stephen Hawking

7. On creating your own fate:

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."-Stephen Hawking

8. On knowledge:

"Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”-Stephen Hawking

9. On the power of possiblity:

"Here are the most important pieces of advice that I've passed on to my children. One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."-Stephen Hawking

10. On living your best life:  "Here are the most important pie

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