Visions : how science will revolutionize the 21st century /

Kaku, Michio.

Visions : how science will revolutionize the 21st century / Michio Kaku. - 1st ed. - New York : Anchor Books, 1997. - xii, 403 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references :p. ([356]-393) and index.

Choreographers of Matter, Life, and Intelligence -- The Invisible Computer -- The Intelligent Planet -- Machines That Think -- Beyond Silicon: Cyborgs and the Ultimate Computer -- Second Thoughts: Will Humans Become Obsolete? -- Personal DNA Codes -- Conquering Cancer - Fixing Our Genes -- Molecular Medicine and the Mind/Body Link -- To Live Forever? -- Playing God: Designer Children and Clones -- Second Thoughts: The Genetics of a Brave New World? -- The Quantum Future -- To Reach for the Stars -- Toward a Planetary
.Civilization -- Masters of Space and Time

Discusses the future of science and technology in the next one hundred years, drawing from interviews with scientists in a wide variety of disciplines to make predictions about developments in the fields of computer science, biogenetics,
.and quantum physics

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Science--Methodology--Popular works.
Science--Forecasting--Popular works.
Technological forecasting--Popular works.
Quantum theory--Popular works.
Molecular biology--Popular works.
Computers and civilization--Popular works.
Twenty-first century--Forecasts--Popular works.
Science--Methodology.
Science--Forecasting.
Technological forecasting.
Quantum theory.
Molecular biology.
Computers and civilization.
Twenty-first century--Forecasts.

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