‘Entropy: A New World View’ is a book that explores the sustainability of modern civilization based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics. A few weeks ago, I was waiting in line at the bus stop to catch the school shuttle. A blue bus I hadn’t seen before approached from a distance, with the words ‘Electric Bus Trial Run’ written on its front. This can be seen as part of the policy...
Entropy: A New World View (Is Progress Headed Toward the End?)
In this blog post, we revisit the limits of civilization hidden behind progress through ‘Entropy: A New World View’. In Jeremy Rifkin’s book, entropy is defined as “the amount of change in a thermodynamic system when an object absorbs heat and undergoes a change.” Theories like Newton’s framework or Einstein’s theory of relativity are accepted as truth because no...
Will entropy lead humanity to ruin, or is technology the key to salvation?
This blog post explores the concept of thermal death presented in ‘Entropy: A New World View’ and how technological advancement could transform humanity’s future. The author begins the book by addressing the mechanistic worldview. He holds a skeptical view of the mechanistic worldview built over the past 300 years by Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and Isaac Newton. According to this...
Can Human Technological Progress Overcome the Entropy Crisis?
This blog post examines whether human technological progress can truly overcome the entropy crisis and avoid resource depletion and extinction. Entropy is both the title of this book and the precise way it represents the author’s worldview. What is entropy? While most people have encountered the term at least once in physics class or through reading, it is not a particularly familiar...
Jeremy Rifkin’s ‘Low-Entropy Society’: Could It Be the Solution for Modern Civilization?
This blog post examines whether Jeremy Rifkin’s proposed ‘low-entropy society’ could be the solution to the environmental and social problems facing modern civilization. Introduction Humans have always been curious about the future yet to come. How humanity will live in the future has been a staple topic for writing and drawing contests since elementary school, and many films and...
Does the decrease in energy according to the entropy law truly signify the end of society and civilization?
This blog post examines whether the decrease in energy according to the entropy law can truly lead to the end of society and civilization. Jeremy Rifkin’s ‘Entropy’ is a book that applies the entropy law—the second law of thermodynamics—not only to the scientific realm but to society as a whole to develop his argument. Examining the entropy law Rifkin describes and his claims, he...