false 785432 8 Take it easy: that's Michio Kaku's motto. Given the extraordinary advances science has thrown up in time for the millennium, the only way you could possibly fit them into a single volume is by a correspondingly massive simplification. <p> Subtitled <I>How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond</I>, <I>Visions</I> assumes that, by and large, scientists get to do whatever they like, that all technologies are consumer technologies, and that consumers welcome anything and everything science throws at them. Kaku gets away with this frankly dodgy strategy by dint of sheer hard work. He has based his predictions on interviews with more than 150 renowned working scientists; he integrates these interviews with a huge body of original journalistic material; and, above all, he roots that mass of information on an entirely reasonable model of what the purpose of science will be in the third millennium. Up until now, science has expended its efforts on decoding most of the fundamental natural processes--"the dance," as Kaku puts it, of elementary particles deep inside stars and the rhythms of DNA molecules coiling and uncoiling within our bodies. Science's task now, Kaku believes, is to cross-pollinate advances thrown up by the study of matter, biology, and mind--modern science's three main theaters of endeavor. "We are now making the transition from amateur chess players to grand masters," he writes, "from observers to choreographers of nature." Then again, he also believes that "the Internet ... will eventually become a 'Magic Mirror' that appears in fairy tales, able to speak with the wisdom of the human race." Kaku, in short, deserves a good slapping--but he also deserves to be read. <I>--Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk</I> 1156061 1997 Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century total:198|5:46|4:78|3:57|2:15|1:2| 198 745 333 19 4 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 21:57:56 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 22:24:17 -0700 2009
I am most interested in the computer revolution. Computers are always getting smaller, faster, an...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 02 21:54:54 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 21:56:45 -0700 2008
Written about 10 years ago, so its getting outdated but a lot of the predictions are happening. Good for anybody in the technology field or interested in tech foresight.]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 02 11:09:22 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 11:11:06 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 05:40:04 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 10:10:51 -0700 2007
Published in 1997, Visions is a futuristic look at what’s likely to happen in the decades to come in three areas of science that are rapidly converging:...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jun 30 09:30:56 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 09:38:43 -0700 2009
This book predicts where science will take us in the near and distant future.

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