ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION Predicting the Next 100 years
FUTURE OF THE COMPUTER Mind over Matter
FUTURE OF AI Rise of the Machines
FUTURE OF MEDICINE Perfection and Beyond
NANOTECHNOLOGY Everything from Nothing?
FUTURE OF ENERGY Energy from the Stars
FUTURE OF SPACE TRAVEL To the Stars
FUTURE OF WEALTH Winners and Losers
FUTURE OF HUMANITY Planetary Civilization
A DAY IN THE LIFE IN 2100
NOTES
RECOMMENDED READING
INDEX
MICHIO KAKU is a professor of physics at the City University of New York, cofounder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Hyperspace, Beyond Einstein, Physics of the Impossible, and Physics of the Future. He is the science correspondent for CBS’s This Morning and host of the radio programs Science Fantastic and Explorations in Science.
“Fascinating.... [A] wide-ranging tour of what to expect from
technological progress over the next century or so.” —Wall Street
Journal
“Mind-bending. . . . [An] alternately fascinating and frightening
book.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A whirlwind tour of technological possibility.” —New Scientist
“Mak[es] the exponential character of technological progress stick
in the reader’s head, so that they come to look at the world
differently.” —The Sunday Telegraph (London)
“[Physics of the Future] has the ability to surprise and enthrall
and frighten.” —The New York Times
“[Kaku] has the rare ability to take complicated scientific
theories and turn them into readable tales about what our lives
will be like in the future.... Fascinating. And just a little bit
spooky.” —USA Today
“Kaku is a tireless science popularizer.... [He gets] the juices of
future physicists flowing.” —Los Angeles Times
“[Kaku] has a knack for making complex ideas entertaining.” —The
Charlotte Observer
“Erudite [and] compelling.” —Chicago Tribune
"One cannot help but feel buoyed that the miraculous world the
author presents may really be less than a hundred years hence."
—Louisville Courier-Journal
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