The Future of Humanity, Michio Kaku
The Future of Humanity, Michio Kaku
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The Future of Humanity
Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth

Bestseller

Author: Michio Kaku

Narrator: Feodor Chin

Unabridged: 12 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/20/2018

Synopsis

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 Monitor

We 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.

About Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of the City University of New York. He is the author of other popular and graduate level books and for the past ten years has hosted a weekly public-radio talk show on science and current events. He is an experienced and outstanding public speaker.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Muhammad on May 09, 2021

This is an amazing read for me. I have enjoyed it a lot. Michio Kaku, the author of the book, speculates the humanity's future in a wonderful fashion. The technology that is discussed in the book is really mindblowing. In short, this book is a must read for everyone. Here is the brief overview of th......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on November 28, 2018

The starting signal for the unlimited spread of the human species and the essence of science fiction. Please note that I put the original German text at the end of this review. Just if you might be interested. As it was often the case in its history, humanity is at the beginning of a new epoch. With t......more

Goodreads review by Mircea on September 03, 2022

Cosmism se numeste filosofia ce sustine ca viitorul omenirii este explorarea spatiului cosmic. Sunt un adept infocat. Trebuie sa construim o civilizatie multiplanetara. Argumente: -exploatarea resurselor care se gasesc rar pe Pamant, dar care sunt abundente in spatiu. De exemplu pamanturile rare foart......more

Goodreads review by Jack on September 21, 2018

This book is an amazing trip through the universe and beyond, which apparently could happen some distant day. From colonizing Mars to one day laser-porting our consciousness to distant galaxies at the speed of light, the possibilities dreamed up by science fiction writers could become reality, and e......more

Goodreads review by Yoly on July 19, 2018

Well, that was awkward. With Michio Kaku as the author, I was expecting a book more about facts, but I ended up reading a book where the author mixes some bits of science with tons of “some day we…” and TONS of movies and books spoilers :) I think the book was OK, I guess I was expecting something d......more

Quotes

“The wide popular interest in Elon Musk’s recent launch of one of his own Tesla cars into space shows the extent to which space travel has again become mass entertainment as well as, perhaps, mass aspiration. It is good timing, then, for a book by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku on the possible paths to our future as a galaxy-trotting species. . . . With admirable clarity and ease, Mr. Kaku rehearses the history of rocketry and the formation of the planets, and explains how we might colonize not only Mars but some of the rocky moons of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. . . . The book has an infectious, can-do enthusiasm.”
—Steven Poole, The Wall Street Journal
 
“Kaku is a practiced and very effective popularizer of science for a general audience; he's unfailingly interesting, with an unerring instinct for the most thought-provoking aspects of his various subjects. The sheer amount of technical scientific speculation in The Future of Humanity is amazing, and yet Kaku is in smooth, perfect control of it the entire time.”
—Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor

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