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