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Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku
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Feb 21, 2012 | ISBN 9780307473332

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Praise

“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

Table Of Contents

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

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