Michio Kaku

With blinding speed, breath-taking advances in computers, artificial intelligence, the internet, and biotechnology are changing everything around us and overturning all our cherished notions. But where is all this leading? What is the end-product of all this fantastic progress?

Based on interviews with over 300 top scientists, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE reveals a new, startling picture of where science is taking us, which is emerging right before our eyes. It is becoming clear that in this century we will have power over matter and life that we normally associate with a god. From mythology, we know that the gods had the ability to animate the inanimate, to manipulate matter at will, and to live forever. Advances in science, fueled by our understanding of quantum physics, will give us god-like powers within this century. In fact, if someone with the science of 2100 were to somehow journey back in time, our ancestors would overwhelmingly declare that they were in the presence of a god.

Although science may promise us the power of a god, we have to ask yet another question: will we, like the gods, have an Achilles heel? Will our own hubris do us in? Physics of the Future then analyzes the threats facing us in the 21st century, from the physics of nuclear proliferation to the physics of the greenhouse effect.