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This is a 10 minute interview with the author of the book on PBS so you can listen to it. This is going to change the world of warfare and many other fields. ""The first people to buy these contact lenses will be college students studying for final exams," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "They'll see the exam answers right in their contact lenses. ... In a cocktail party, you will know exactly who to suck up to, because you'll have a complete read out of who they are. President Barack Obama will buy these contact lenses, so he'll never need a teleprompter again. ... These already exist in some form [in the military]. You place [a lens] on your helmet, you flip it down, and immediately you see the Internet of the battlefield ... all of it, right on your eyeball.""

Review om Michio Kaku's book, "Physics of the Future"

Here are the trends in the Space chapter "Future of Space Travel Near Future: Landing on an Asteroid, Landing on a Moon of Mars, Return to the Moon, Permanent Moon Base Midcentury: Mission to Mars, Space Tourism Far Future: Space Elevator, Starships, Nanoships"

Chapter one summary "Future of the Computer Near Future: Internet Glasses, Driverless Cars, Flexible Electronic Paper, Virtual Worlds Midcentury: Augmented Reality, Universal Translators, Holograms & 3-D Far Future: Direct Mind-Computer Interface, Tricorders"

Chapter two summary "Near Future: Expert Systems Midcentury: Modular Robots, Robot Surgeons & Cooks, Emotional Robots, Modeling the Brain Far Future: Conscious Machines, Cybernetics"

"Nanotechnology Near Future: Nanomachines in Our Body, Carbon Nanotubes (like graphene), Atomic Transistors, Quantum Computers Midcentury: Shape-Shifting Far Future: Replicators"

"Kaku discusses how Moore's law robotics will affect the future capitalism, which nations will survive and grow, how the United States is "brain-draining" off of immigrants to fuel their economy"

"Future of the Computer: Mind over Matter[edit] Kaku begins with Moore's law, and compares a chip that sings "Happy Birthday" with the Allied forces in 1945, stating that the chip contains much more power,[1][6] and that "Hitler, Churchill, or Roosevelt might have killed to get that chip." He predicts that computer power will increase to the point where computers, like electricity, paper, and water, "disappear into the fabric of our lives, and computer chips will be planted in the walls of buildings." He also predicts that glasses and contact lenses will be connected to the internet, using similar technology to virtual retinal displays. Cars will become driverless due to the power of the GPS system. This prediction is supported by the results of the Urban Challenge. The Pentagon hopes to make 1⁄3 of the United States ground forces automated by 2015.[1] Technology similar to BrainGate will eventually allow humans to control computers with tiny brain sensors, and "like a magician, move objects around with the power of our minds.""

"Future of Humanity: Planetary Civilization[edit] Kaku ranks the civilization of the future, with classifications based on energy consumption, entropy, and information processing. Reception[edit] "

Overview of chapter 6 on the Chemical Rockets "Future of Space Travel: To the Stars 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."

Chapter two summary "Kaku discusses robotic body parts, modular robots, unemployment caused by robots, surrogates and avatars (like their respective movies), and reverse engineering the brain. "