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by
Michio Kaku
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May 25 - June 2, 2025
“university of hard knocks.”
the DARPA Robotics Challenge
Rodney Brooks, former director of MIT’s renowned AI Laboratory.
Samuel Butler wrote an article entitled “Darwin Among the Machines,”
John von Neumann,
Advanced Automation for Space Missions.
AI expert Hans Moravec
Oxford professor Nick Bostrom
Claude Shannon,
Edward Feigenbaum of Stanford University
Ray Kurzweil.
Mitch Kapor,
the space-time theory of consciousness.
Google’s DeepMind computer,
the 1921 play R.U.R.,
we must add a fail-safe chip that will shut them off
master computer, called VIKI,
science fiction teaches us to exercise caution.
the quantum computer,
“qubit,”
—JAMES AND GREGORY BENFORD
Breakthrough Starshot, which seeks to develop “nanoships,”
Yuri Milner
light sails.
Johannes Kepler
From the Earth to the Moon
Planetary Society’s Cosmos 1 in 2005 and NASA’s NanoSail-D
NASA’s NanoSail-D2,
The IKAROS satellite
The European Space Agency
the Gossamer solar sail,
Geoffrey Landis,
Mary Turzillo,
the Breakthrough Starshot laser sail.
ramjet fusion rocket—that
ion engines,
the Deep Space Transport,
Microwave Sciences
Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon,
Project Orion,
portable nuclear canon
Ted Taylor
Project Daedalus.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
The National Ignition Facility (NIF),
the Livermore National Laboratory in California,
hydrogen-rich lithium deuteride,
antimatter engines, light sails, fusion engines, and nanoships)
the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
