How Science and Technology will Revolutionize the Future

No one can foresee the future, but the best one can do is to interview some of the finest scientific minds on the planet. Dr. Michio Kaku, best-selling author of Hyperspace, Parallel Worlds, and internationally recognized authority on Einstein's unified field theory, has written Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century, based on his interviews with 150 of the world's top scientists, including Nobel Prize winners and directors of the major scientific laboratories, who control hundreds of millions in research funds. He asked them one question: their vision for the next 20 years, in the economy, artificial intelligence, DNA research, medicine, space travel, computers, etc.. These scientists are doing the yeoman's work inventing the future in their laboratories. In his lecture, Dr. Kaku will show "pictures from the future," i.e. pictures of the devices and therapies which are going to revolutionize society.

In Visions, Dr. Kaku also speculates about the next 100 years. Physicists categorize our current civilization as a Type 0 civilization, using oil and coal for our energy supply. But within 100 years, we will be making the most important transition in the history of civilization, from Type 0 to Type 1, to a truly planetary civilization. Every headline, every scientific breakthrough is linked to this historic transition to a Type 1 civilization. Every aspect of our society, from our economy, culture, telecommunications, politics, language, power, will be revolutionized by this transition. This raises an additional question: will we survive to see the birth of a Type II and III civilization?

 Bio: Dr. Michio Kaku is an internationally recognized authority in theoretical physics and the environment. He holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has lectured around the world and his Ph.D. level textbooks are required reading at many of the top physics laboratories. Dr. Kaku graduated from Harvard in 1968, summa cum laude, and number one in his physics class.
He received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in 1972. He held a lectureship at Princeton University in 1973. He then joined the faculty at the City University of New York, where he has been a professor of theoretical physics for 25 years. His goal is to help complete Einstein dream of a heory of everything, a single equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, which will unify all the fundamental forces in the universe.