The Physics of the Future

Resumen del libro

Based on interviews with over three hundred of the world's top scientists, who are already inventing the future in their labs, Kaku in a lucid and engaging fashion presents the revolutionary developments in medi cine, computers, quantum physics, and space travel that will forever change our way of life and alter the course of civilization itself. His astonishing revelations include: The Internet will be in your contact lens. It will recog nize people's faces, display their biographies, and even translate their words into subtitles. You will control computers and appliances via tiny sen sors that pick up your brain scans. You will be able to rearrange the shape of objects.

Biografía del autor

Michio Kaku (1947), profesor de física teórica en la City University de Nueva York, es uno de los especialistas más destacados en teoría de supercuerdas. Entre sus obras destacan Beyond Einstein. The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe, con Jennifer Trainer y Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Introduction e Introduction to Superstrings.