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La Física Del Futuro (2011)

by Michio Kaku(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

849992011X (ISBN13: 9788499920115)

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English

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History & Biography

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Debate

review 1: He's not a writer at all. Other reviewers are correct to note that his writing is repetitive and boring. Moreover, there is way too much speculation, especially in scientific fields with which he is less familiar. Finally, there is way too much reaching (sci-fi movie and book synopses) to try to capture a layman audience. That being said, there was plenty to like about the book. Arts influence science and the reverse and the discussion of current and future technology were both fascinating at points, when the speculation wasn't taken too far. Overall, 2.5-3 stars. I learned something.
review 2: In this book, Dr. Kaku describes his modernist and optimistic vision of technological progress from now until the year 2100. Like the creators of the 1964 World’s Fai... morer and "Star Trek," he imagines that future technologies will create a more peaceful, prosperous, and united world. Rosy as this vision is, it deserves to be taken seriously because Dr. Kaku is a physicist of some renown. When he predicts that economical fusion power will be available by mid-century, that MRI’s will become hand-held devices, and that room temperature superconductors and the consequent mag-lev technology will revolutionize transportation, we should listen. Kaku envisions many advances in computing and medicine. He doesn’t think that a true general AI will arise by 2100, but he believes that microchips will become so ubiquitous and interwoven into everyday goods that even our clothes will be able to do everything from reminding us of upcoming appointments to giving us first aid in an emergency. Nanotech will revolutionize both materials science and medicine, enabling the construction of miniature robots that perform surgery without breaking the skin. By 2100, robots will be more numerous than ground vehicles, and human beings will operate machinery by radio-telepathy. Economical self-driving cars will arrive much sooner. At its best, The Physics of the Future describes, in clear laymen’s language, how the physics of today will lead to the technologies of the future. Kaku is also ingenious in his use of mythological references to underscore the fact that technology exists to satisfy desires that date back to antiquity. The book falls short, however, when it describes the future of the political economy and international relations. Kaku apparently believes that most nations are progressing toward capitalist democracy and a planetary culture, and that only the forces of ignorance and fundamentalism are impeding this development. He even avers that fourth world nations will assimilate into modern cultures while preserving their native cultures and languages on the Internet. It is as if the oppression of poor nations and fourth world cultures don’t exist for Dr. Kaku. But when he sticks to his field of expertise, he is one enlightening author. less

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Marlene

Thanks to a colleague who sensed my love for science and science fiction, I was presented this book at Christmas and had all of the quiet and peace of a nature resort in Coorg and my parents home in Bangalore to read it. Unlike other futurists who pretend to know it all, the book begins with a long list of people who actually make the predictions, the author claims to merely put them all together. This may well be his humility which is not seen much in futurists who often claim to be the current version of tribal medicine men who can see the future. It bodes well when, every now and then, Kaku reminds us how badly technological innovations have failed us just because of premature hype. Many of these may well have been successes if we had managed our expectations and let them develop at their own pace. It would be amiss of me to end without asking why Kaku is so pessimistic about our software development skills. He reminds us more than once that software development is perhaps our Achilles heel, and this he concludes from his own experience, rather than quoting experts which is often how he prefaces a prediction. A visit to Bangalore may well do him some good. He may realise that computers, not humans, really write the software and no one begins with a clean sheet of paper any more. All the hardware development that fascinate him really work thanks to the software. The book itself makes for wonderful reading, with many inventions likely to affect us in our lifetimes. Some more exotic ones, my son will enjoy and I hope that he will, in the next decade, read the book with as much interest as I just have.

316485

Kaku makes the complex understandable. That is, one does not understand the complexities but rather has a sense of what is happening. This book creates a sense of wonder. His look into the 22nd century seemed too pat but still challenging to the mind. Given how difficult it has been to find cures for cancer, parkinson's, or even the common cold, it is hard to consider how disease could be eradicated. On the other hand, the use of dust sized computers, seems quite possible.I would recommend this book for inquiring minds of most ilks.

Jovz

I couldn't finish this book.

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