Table of Contents

Preface Part 1: Visions 1: Choreographers of matter, life, and intelligence Part 2: The Computer Revolution 2: The invisible computer 3: The intelligent planet 4: Machines that think 5: Beyond silicon; cyborgs and the ultimate computer 6: Second thoughts: will humans become obsolute? Part 3: The Biomolecular Revolution 7: Personal DNA codes 8: Conquering cancer - fixing our genes 9: Molecular medicine and the mind/body link 10: To live forever? 11: Playing God: designer children and clones 12: Second thoughts: brave new world? Part 4: The Quantum Revolution 13: The quantum future 14: To reach for the stars 15: Birth of a planetary civilization 16: Children of the stars Index

About the Author

Michio Kaku is Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York. An internationally acclaimed physicist, he is the co-founder of the string field theory. He hosts a weekly hour-long radio science programme in the USA, and has appeared on many television programmes.

Reviews

`This is a highly-entertaining book, which looks into the possibility that the science we already know to consider possibilities that few can envisage' Birmingham Post `...a book of far-reaching implications...It is brilliantly informed and well written, giving a round and astonishing image of what life will be like over the next 100 years...I heartily recommend it as a classic for anyone interested in futurology' Spirit Magazine