Visions : how science will revolutionize the 21st century / Michio Kaku.

By: Kaku, MichioMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Anchor Books, 1997Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 403 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type: ISBN: 0385484984; 9780385484985; 9780385484992 (pbk); 0385484992 (pbk)Subject(s): 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 -- ForecastsDDC classification: 303.483 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online | Click here to access online
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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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