The Future of Humanity
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Michio Kaku
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The national bestselling author of The God Equation traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. “Amazing … Kaku is in smooth perfect control of it the entire time.” —The Christian Science MonitorWe are entering a new Golden Age of space exploration. With irrepressible enthusiasm and a deep understanding of the cutting-edge research in space travel, world-renowned physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku presents a compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals the developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology that may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars and beyond. He then journeys out of our solar system and discusses how new technologies such as nanoships, laser sails, and fusion rockets may actually make interstellar travel a possibility. We travel beyond our galaxy, and even beyond our universe, as Kaku investigates some of the hottest topics in science today, including warp drive, wormholes, hyperspace, parallel universes, and the multiverse. Ultimately, he shows us how humans may someday achieve a form of immortality and be able to leave our bodies entirely, laser porting to new havens in space.
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Author
Michio Kaku
Pages
368
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2019-04-02
ISBN
0525434542 9780525434542
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"I particularly enjoyed reading about the efforts now being made to create a permanent moon base & to terraform Mars & the use of A.I., nanotechnology & biotechnology to do it all — self-replicating robots 🤖, super strong, lightweight nano-materials & bio-engineered crops to drastically cut costs & to make Mars into a veritable paradise… Something that won’t be fulfilled until many, many distant lifetimes from now▪️Kaku also covers the subject of interstellar travel 🚀 💫 and ▪️what it will require to genetically modify our bodies or engineer ourselves to survive for prolonged periods of time in deep space & to flourish on distant planets with different gravity, atmospheric composition & ecology."