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…istas he presents us are worth the trip.” —The New York Times Books Review Michio Kaku, the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the Future tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain. The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality. This scientific tour de force unveils the astonishing…
Read more ›RoboDoc Makes House Calls
One in a series of excerpts from Michio Kaku’s amazing new book, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE. In the near future, you may simply go to your wall screen and talk to robodoc. You will be able to change the face, and even the personality, of the robodoc that you see with the push of a button. The friendly face you see in your wall screen will ask a simple set of questions: How do you feel? Where does it hurt? When did the pain start? How often does it hur…
Read more ›Pixie Dust Regenerates Fingertips: Fact not Fiction
One in a series of excerpts from Michio Kaku’s amazing new book, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE. One breakthrough made by the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine has been using a radically new method of growing new organs. Scientists have long known that salamanders have remarkable powers of regeneration, regrowing entire limbs after they are lost. These limbs grow back because salamander stem cells are stimulated to make new limbs. One theory…
Read more ›In the Future, Youth Won't Be Wasted on the Young
One in a series of excerpts from Michio Kaku’s amazing new book, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE. The prospect of extending the human life span is a source of joy for some, and a horror for others, as we contemplate a population explosion and a society of decrepit elderly which will bankrupt the country. A combination of biological, mechanical, and nanotechnolgical therapies may in fact alter not only increase our life span, but preserve our youth in the p…
Read more ›The Return of the Mammoth?
One in a series of excerpts from Michio Kaku’s amazing new book, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE. The idea is not as crazy as it sounds. Already, scientists have been able to sequence much of the genome of the extinct Siberian mammoth. Previously, only tiny fragments of DNA had been extracted from woolly mammoths that were frozen in Siberia tens of thousands of years ago. Webb Miller and Stephan C. Schuster of Pennsylvania State Univ ersity did the impossi…
Read more ›Christmas in 2050? Take a peek…
One in a series of excerpts from Michio Kaku’s amazing new book, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE. In its laboratories, Intel has already created an array of catoms that are about an inch in size. The catom resembles a cube, except it has scores of tiny electrodes spread evenly on its surfaces. What makes these catoms so unique is that you can change the charge on each of its electrodes, so that catoms would bind to each other in different orientations. Wit…
Read more ›Your cell phone has more computing power than NASA circa 1969
One in a series of excerpts from Michio Kaku’s amazing new book, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE. Moore’s law simply says that computer power doubles every eighteen months. First stated in 1965 by Gordon Moore, one of the founders of the Intel Corporation, this simple law has helped to revolutionize the world economy, generated fabulous new wealth, and irreversibly altered our way of life. When you plot the plunging price of computer chips and their rapid…
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