Physics of the Future : How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
ISBN: 9780385530804 | 0385530803
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Doubleday
Pub. Date: 3/15/2011
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The Internet will be embedded in your contact lenses, and your computer and other appliances will respond to sensors attuned to your brain. It sounds like science fiction, but string theory cofounder and CUNY Graduate Center professor Kaku bases such predictions on interviews with more than 300 scientists already working on this stuff. Not just for nerds.
TheNew York Timesbestselling author ofPhysics of the Impossiblegives us a stunning and provocative vision of the future. Based on interviews with over three hundr... MORE
TheNew York Timesbestselling author ofPhysics of the Impossiblegives us a stunning and provocative vision of the future. Based on interviews with over three hundr... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction: Predicting the Next 100 Years | p. 1 |
| Future of the Computer: Mind over Matter | p. 19 |
| Future of AI: Rise of the Machines | p. 65 |
| Future of Medicine: Perfection and Beyond | p. 118 |
| Nanotechnology: Everything from Nothing? | p. 172 |
| Future of Energy: Energy from the Stars | p. 210 |
| Future of Space Travel: To the Stars | p. 255 |
MICHIO KAKU is a professor of physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, cofounder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Physics of the Impossible, also the basis for his Science Channel show and two radio programs, Explorations and Science Fantastic.
