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This summarizes the trends in the chapter of medicine. "Future of Medicine Near Future: Genomic Medicine, Medical Scanners, Stem Cells, Midcentury: Gene Therapy, Designer Children Far Future: Reversing Aging, Immortality, Bringing Back Dinosaurs & Neanderthals, Germ Warfare"

Review of the book giving insight into each chapter

Review of the book giving insight into each chapter

"The Future of Wind Energy Wind energy is a clean, renewable way of producing electricity. If costs are brought down, its future looks assured as a complement to other electrical production technologies such as fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and solar energy. Much of its future development will undoubtedly be offshore."

This page summarizes Chapter 3 (Future of the Medicine). "Kaku discusses robotic body parts, modular robots, unemployment caused by robots, surrogates and avatars (like their respective movies), and reverse engineering the brain. Kaku goes over the three laws of robotics and their contradictions. He endorses a "chip in robot brains to automatically shut them off if they have murderous thoughts", and believes that the most likely scenario is "friendly AI", in which robots are free to wreak havoc and destruction, but are designed to desire benevolence.[1]"

"Nanotechnology: Everything from Nothing?"

"Unlike conventional chemical rockets which use Newton's third law of motion, solar sails take advantage of radiation pressure from stars. Kaku believes that after sending a gigantic solar sail into orbit, one could install lasers on the moon, which would hit the sail and give it extra momentum. Another alternative is to send thousands of nanoships, of which only a few would reach their destination. "Once arriving on a nearby moon, they could create a factory to make unlimited copies of themselves," says Kaku. Nanoships would require very little fuel to accelerate. They could visit the stellar neighborhood by floating on the magnetic fields of other planets."

Scenarios for the Future of humanity

I believe this is an extraordinary website. It seems to do a great job exhibiting what our future may hold. Seems very useful as an outline for research or opinions.

This page summarizes the whole book, "Physics of the Future" . It will be very useful in understanding the summary book.

article about future of Computers

NPR report on Physics of the Future

This page gave a good amount on how nanotechnology can change the future of medicine, from taking pills to cancer. It also talks about nerve regeneration and how that is in the near future with nanotechnology.

"Nanotechnology is already being used in products in its passive form, such as cosmetics and sunscreens,"

"Nanotechnology medical developments over the coming years will have a wide variety of uses and could potentially save a great number of lives. Nanotechnology is already moving from being used in passive structures to active structures, through more targeted drug therapies or "smart drugs." These new drug therapies have already been shown to cause fewer side effects and be more effective than traditional therapies. In the future, nanotechnology will also aid in the formation of molecular systems that may be strikingly similar to living systems. These molecular structures could be the basis for the regeneration or replacement of body parts that are currently lost to infection, accident, or disease. These predictions for the future have great significance not only in encouraging nanotechnology research and development but also in determining a means of oversight. The number of products approaching the FDA approval and review process is likely to grow as time moves forward and as new nanotechnology medical applications are developed."

"Recent innovations such as the iPad provide an exciting glimpse into the future of computers." This site is useful because it explains different types of technology and what they will be in the future. This site is reliable because I checked it's reliablity on easybib.

This is the future of the office "Imagine someone rolling out what looks like a blueprint … only the buildings begin to literally pop off the page, showing you like never before what the structure will look like before it is even built. There is no way to describe how amazing this architectural innovation is - you have to see it to believe it (video below)! Forget the physical: you can now generate high-speed, life-like, visually three-dimensional and fully-automated holographic models of buildings cheaper, faster and more accurately than its 'real life' equivalents."

This is some pretty mind-blowing technology, just to be able to see a picture in 360 angles and the picture just be a flat piece of plastic. The hologram is a technology that many people will have use for in the future... making it a use for us in this project. I believe this is a seemingly reputable source being that it came from the company that produces the product. I loved the second picture, once you lower your eye-point you see a street view of the potential building.

This is someone else's outline of the book, which is important because it is showing the opinions of the book from someone else's perspective.

The review of "Physics of the Future" is very interesting to to take into account when about to read the book. Dwight Garner's review on this book gives another perspective to consider, not only about the ideas represented by Michio Kaku, but also about Kaku's writing ability.

New York Times article describing the book Physics of the Future

This website shows you two different ideas of a timeline from 2015 all the way to 2100. It gave us a basic understanding of what might be to come before 2100, so we can accurately make predictions on what the future may hold. The page itself may not seem to look very reliable, but the website the information is from is a newsletter completely based on predictions of the future. By knowing what may come before the twenty-second century, we are able to see into the future clearly. This project is to understand the future of our civilization "Will the year 2100 bring disaster or salvation?"

"However, it is fast becoming time to reckon with what the future holds for our computers - and technology in general." This site is useful to me because it leaves open any possibility about computers of the future. It talks about how computer technology can only improve. I will use this website to help improve my predictions. This website is reliable because it goes along with a lot of predictions about future computing devices.

"Earnings calls are usually meant to do little more than reassure investors - but in Facebook's most recent call, the day before Halloween, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled something unexpected. Facebook had formed an Artificial Intelligence group, Zuckerberg announced, and the company was acquiring a machine-translation company and hiring the best academic minds in the field. The goal, he told investors, was "to do world-class artificial intelligence research using all of the knowledge that people have shared on Facebook." He teased new products that would be more natural to interact with, and could solve problems beyond the reach of current technology. For anyone on the call, the point was clear: the future of Facebook would be powered by AI."

"The Internet is just a few decades old, but in that short span of time it has experienced significant changes" This site is useful because it explains how in the future internet will be faster. I believe this site is reliable because it has factual information that seems legitimate. 

What you do today could affect what happened yesterday.

"...but the researchers say that the rules of the quantum world conspire to preserve causality by "hiding" the influence of future choices until those choices have actually been made." It is interesting to see our existence through that lens. It is strange to believe that you are always being influenced by the choices and decisions that you have not made yet. This source seems reliable because it was written by a website that has true information.

future of nano tech video. talking about what it can dp

This page seems to be reliable to me because the interviewees were very prestigious professors at multiple universities. Also, one of the interviewees was a futurist who devotes his time to predict the future and what it will be like based off of basic sciences. That is why this video seemed to be legit to me.

"Many scientists believe the exponential growth in computing power leads inevitably to a future moment when computers will attain human-level intelligence: an event known as the "singularity"." I find this site very useful because it gives insight from many different perspectives about different possibilities for the future of the computer. It talks about how computers will possibly be capable of out thinking humans. On the contrary, the source talks about how computers may not be capable of outperforming humans. I believe this source is reliable because it contains quotes from many respected scientists, including Michio Kaku.

"Computing has developed at an amazing pace over the last few decades, but even today's computers are essentially glorified calculators" This site is useful because it shares very interesting information about the future of computers acting and thinking like humans. This site is reliable because it is on a news website backed by facts.

"Helping the blind get around could involve less help from canines and more help from computers in the future"This site is useful because it explains a lot about the future of blind people "seeing", and about how the computer can help with that. This site is relaible because I looked it up on easybib.

"In the future rush to get to work, the day's tasks will be checked using a personal robotic butler, the misplaced car keys will be located by entering the word "keys" into a cellphone and getting a call back saying "bedroom." I find this site useful because it gives another insight on what future computers will be like. It gives great examples of what the technology will be like. For example; our phone will be able to command the dishwasher and the laundry machine while we do other activities. This site is reliable because the concept of this site correlates with many other sources about the future of the computer.

"As amazing as the last half-century has been, experts tell us that computer technology is still only in its awkward adolescence." This site is useful because it explains what future computing devices can possibly do and explains what they will be like. This site is reliable because it relates to many other predictions about future computers and has opinions from experts.