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Physics of the Future

How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

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Michio Kaku's Physics of the Future: The Inventions that will Transform our Lives is a hypothetical journey through the next 100 years of scientific innovation, as told by the scientists who are making it happen.

We all wish we could predict the future, but most of us don't know enough about the science that makes it possible. That's why Michio Kaku decided to talk to the people who really know - the visionaries who are already inventing the future in their labs.

Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists, Kaku gives us an insider's perspective on the revolutionary advances that mean we'll soon be able to take an elevator into space, access the internet via our contact lenses, scan our DNA for signs of disease and even change the shape of objects - and all still within the laws of known physics.

This isn't just the shape of things to come - as Kaku shows, it's already happening.

'Summons up the sheer wonder of science' Daily Telegraph

'A whirlwind tour of technological possibilities' New Scientist

'One of the gurus of modern physics' Financial Times

'An entertaining account of envelope-pushing research' Economist

© Michio Kaku 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

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This audio book has a recent release date, but the text itself is from 2011. I didn’t check this before I started listening and found some of the expectations about advances and references to dates that were then in the future confusing. A lot has happened since then, not least a global pandemic that forced millions to work remotely for years, making predictions about remote work seem quaint. This isn’t to say that the book is not worth listening to. But you will find yourself saying “well, things didn’t work out quite like that” and should look at it from an adjusted angle.

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