Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Michio Kaku

May 2011 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

The international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible gives us a stunning and provocative vision of the future

Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs, Kaku-in a lucid and engaging fashion-presents the revolutionary developments in medicine, computers, quantum physics, and space travel that will forever change our way of life and alter the course of civilization itself.
His astonishing revelations include:

The Internet will be in your contact lens. It will recognize people's faces, display their biographies, and even translate their words into subtitles.

You will control computers and appliances via tiny sensors that pick up your brain scans. You will be able to rearrange the shape of objects.

Sensors in your clothing, bathroom, and appliances will monitor your vitals, and nanobots will scan your DNA and cells for signs of danger, allowing life expectancy to increase dramatically.

Radically new spaceships, using laser propulsion, may replace the expensive chemical rockets of today. You may be able to take an elevator hundreds of miles into space by simply pushing the "up" button.

Like Physics of the Impossible and Visions before it, Physics of the Future is an exhilarating, wondrous ride through the next one hundred years of breathtaking scientific revolution.

Internationally acclaimed physicist Dr Michio Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York. He is also an international bestselling author, his books including Hyperspace and Parallel Worlds, and a distinguished writer, having featured in Time, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times and the New Scientist to name but a few. Dr Kaku also hosts his own radio show, 'Science Fantastic', and recently presented the BBC's popular series 'Time'.

Ratings and reviews

Mitchio has a good explanations for current science discoveries, but his future predictions sound unrealistic, or it may be availiable in more far future, like in next 1k years. Even lots tech is availiable now, there is not workable market models for it in present and in 100years future. Its sells on what we want to hear' what sounds nice.

Its an ok book but i dont like his ideas of merging religion so closely to science in other book he suggested that god collapsed the wavefuntion of macroscopic objects

"Once the crew destroyed the power supply, Apollo was reduced to an ordinary mortal." Fancy future then, so long as the power stays on ehh?

About the author

Internationally acclaimed physicist Dr Michio Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York. He is also an international bestselling author, his books including Hyperspace and Parallel Worlds, and a distinguished writer, having featured in Time, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times and the New Scientist to name but a few. Dr Kaku also hosts his own radio show, 'Science Fantastic', and recently presented the BBC's popular series 'Time'.