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Take it easy: that's Michio Kaku's motto. Given the extraordinary advances science has thrown up in time for the millennium, the only way you could possibly fit them into a single volume is by a correspondingly massive simplification.
Subtitled How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond, Visions assumes that, by and large, scientists get to do whatever they like, that all technologies are consumer technologies, and that consumers welcome anything and everything science throws at them. Kaku gets away with this frankly dodgy strategy by dint of sheer hard work. He has based his predictions on interviews with more than 150 renowned working scientists; he integrates these interviews with a huge body of original journalistic material; and, above all, he roots that mass of information on an entirely reasonable model of what the purpose of science will be in the third millennium. Up until now, science has expended its efforts on decoding most of the fundamental natural processes--"the dance," as Kaku puts it, of elementary particles deep inside stars and the rhythms of DNA molecules coiling and uncoiling within our bodies. Science's task now, Kaku believes, is to cross-pollinate advances thrown up by the study of matter, biology, and mind--modern science's three main theaters of endeavor. "We are now making the transition from amateur chess players to grand masters," he writes, "from observers to choreographers of nature." Then again, he also believes that "the Internet ... will eventually become a 'Magic Mirror' that appears in fairy tales, able to speak with the wisdom of the human race." Kaku, in short, deserves a good slapping--but he also deserves to be read. --Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk
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In a spellbinding narrative that skillfully weaves together cutting-edge research among today's foremost scientists, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku--author of the bestselling book Hyperspace--presents a bold, exhilarating adventure into the science of tomorrow.
In Visions, Dr. Kaku examines in vivid detail how the three scientific revolutions that profoundly reshaped the twentieth century--the quantum, biogenetic, and computer revolutions--will transform the way we live in the twenty-first century. The fundamental elements of matter and life--the particles of the atom and the nucleus of the cell--have now been decoded, closing one of the great chapters of scientific history. But this is just the preface to an even more far-reaching scientific revolution, as we make the transition from being passive observers of the mysteries of nature to becoming masters of nature, able to manipulate matter, life, and intelligence to remold the world around us.
In the first part of Visions, Dr. Kaku discusses the cyber future, when millions of microprocessors are scattered throughout our environment; when the iron principle that has ruled the computer industry, Moore's Law, finally collapses, forcing scientists to adopt startling new designs like DNA computers and quantum computers; and when artificial intelligence systems finally arrive.
In the next section, Dr. Kaku shows how the decoding of DNA will allow us to conquer devastating genetic diseases, defeat many cancers at the molecular level, synthesize new medicines using virtual reality, grow new organs, conquer aging and reshape our genetic inheritance.
Finally, he explores how quantum physicists will perfect new ways to harness the cosmic energy of the universe--from molecular machines to supermagnets that may energize a second industrial revolution, to powerful fusion engines that one day may take us to the stars.
What makes Michio Kaku's vision of the future of science so compelling and authoritative is that it is based on the groundbreaking research already underway at leading laboratories around the world. Weaving interviews with over 150 scientists--several of them Nobel laureates--into a rich, inspiring narrative, Dr. Kaku reveals the growing consensus among key scientists about how science will likely evolve through the early, middle, and late years of the twenty-first century.
An intimate, thrilling tour through the next century of science, Visions is a riveting, essential map to how scientists will reshape our future.
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A Letdown.......2007-06-20
After reading Hyperspace I wanted more from Michio Kaku, and this was not it. Yes, it was from Kaku, but it was nothing like Hyperspace. This book is mostly just a series of predictions about the future, most of which are wild speculation, even though the basic physics behind them is solid. If that's what you're looking fro, you've found it. However, don't expect to be overly impressed. Read one of Kaku's other books... they have SO MUCH more to offer.
A convincing extrapolation of science, technology and computers in the future.......2007-05-12
This was the first book I had read in this genre of "Scientific postulation or progressive hypothesis" (I choose to not call it prediction, a word which feels more akin to soothsayers fortelling seeing crystal ball or like Nostradamus). I was simply blown away with the wealth of material presented in this book that too in such a way that neither does the author spend too less time on a certain topic nor a great deal and thankfully he does not go into any equations. The technical jargon when used is explained. This is the perfect book for a layman who loves thinking about what would the future looks like. The books is divided into 3 revolutions. The computer, biomolecular and quantum revolution.
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(Topics discussed )
Xray Lasers
Nanotechnology, self replicating nanobots
Fusion reactors for power generation
Interstellar travel - warp drives, Worm hole generators
Black holes
Hover cars
Type I,II and III advanced civiizations - What would they look like, how advanced would their technology be
Time travel
Travelling below the speed of light
Solar and Extrasolar colonization.
Terraforming mars.
Space colonies on asteriods. Colonizing other galaxies.
Superstring theorg - The unified theory which unifies the electromagnetic, gravitations, and the strong nuclear and the weak nuclear forces.
cancer cure
Gene therapy...
(For a good book on string theory read "Elegant universe" by Brian Greene)
...and many more.
(As per the author What is not possible with the known physics)
- Invisiblity, force fields, "Beam me up scotty" - Teleportation devices.
Pls note thought that some of the information in teh book is dated as it was written in 1998. So many of the predictions have already come true or many of the expected dates for scientific projects got postponed for eg the nasa shuttle launch dates, the International space station proposed dates. The author obviously did not know back then that The shutdown of the shuttleprogram will take place due to the discovery mishap or another one is a sentence attributing enron as a legit company as the author was not aware of what was to come. Glitches which possible annoy you with respect to the present but this is not a drawback since it was written before all these incidents.
The books is filled with such kernel ideas that hit you like shrapnel. This offcourse is not one man's writing. The author is simply assimilating the thoughts of various scientists (over 150 it seems as in the preface the author informs that he had the oppurtunity to have intervies with them). The author borrows from different books as is only natural in a book with such a grand scope in that all the sciences have to be covered. The bibliography shows what an extensive research was made. The bibliography shows sentences which have been used by the author to be attributed to certain scientific papers, journals, conversations with scienties, or books of other reputed popular science writers, scientists alike. I loved every page and it is one of those rare books which is totally non fiction and dealing with such a formidable scientific subject matter but is so beautifully explained for the layman that it reads as fast a paperback John Grisham novel. Books of this kind normally are difficult to sustain interest in a reader atleast in terms of being able to actually finish in a sitting or 2 like you would do would with say a Michael Connelly paperback. But this book does it. Infact its the kind of book that has so much going on it that a lot of enjoyment can be attained by doing multiple rereads. Infact a paper back book would not really be considered to be a reference book, but I would rather keep this book on my shelf to read and re-read certain sections or may be read the whole book again at a latter time. I would buy this book again if the author came out with a revised edition to correct out and bring the book up to date.
(Other 2 fantastic books by Michio Kaku)
- Parallel worlds - The Science of alternative universes and our future in the cosmos
- Hyperspace.
regards, Vikram
Good stuff!.......2007-05-04
Very good book for those who seek how will technology be within the next decades. The future is being created now in the laboratories of big corporations and universities. These creations are shaping the world of the future, life will become much easier and mankind will take benefit of advancements in computer science, medicine and material mechanics. We already see some of these new approaches coming in such as the new plastic chip to replace silicon, a composite material for aircrafts instead of using aluminium hulls, development of super drugs to struggle against cancer and AIDS, and the list goes on. Good stuff for those who love technology.
An intensely researched and knowledgeable yet uncritical set of predictions about the future .......2006-03-07
Kaku really does his work. He interviews not simply one or two but the major experts in all areas he considers. His predictions on a wide variety of subjects are detailed, and apparently 'sensible'.
He himself is a physicist of great reputation. The first section of the work covers the cyber future, in which he believes that millions of microprocessors will be everywhere in the environment. There will be new technologies when Moore's law collapses. DNA and quantum computers as well as artifical intelligences are part of the future he sees.
In the second section of the work he speaks of how the decoding of DNA will enable us to shape our medical and genetic futures.
He believes many diseases such as cancer will be eliminated, and new medicines emerge which will enable us to conquer aging.
In the third section he predicts that research in quantum physics will yield discoveries that will provide incredible sources of energy including those which will power us in great expeditions to the stars.
It is difficult for me to know how to evaluate the credibility of specific predictions though I am more than a little skeptical about those which seem to suggest a total control of environment and destiny.
The work's tone disturbs me in its largely uncritical acceptance of all future developments being worked on.
This very much connects with a sense that the human dimension and implication is not felt deeply enough.
Nonetheless again the book is a richly informed one filled with interesting ideas regarding what the human future might be.
Biological neurosynapic networks.......2005-12-29
Quantum Machine:
David Deutch (Qubit Field Theory)
Julian Brown (Minds, Machines and the Multiverse)
Seth Loyd (A Shortcut Through Time : The Path to the Quantum Computer)
Jeff Kimble (Quantum networks with atomic ensembles, Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics )
David Wineland (Quantum Computation and Shor's Factoring Algorithm, Quantum Physics and Computers)
Chris Monroe(Ion Trap in a Semiconductor Chip, Near-Perfect
Simultaneous Measurement of a Qubit Register, Implementation of Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm in a Scalable System, Precision Lifetime Measurement of a Single Trapped Ion with Ultrafast Laser Pulses)
Marvin Minsky (Why People Think Computers Can't, Matter, Mind and Models, Symbolic vs. Connectionist, Framework for Representing Knowledge, Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence)
Thinking Machines:
De Garis (CAM-Brain Machine will be able to update Computer Automata cells at a 100 of billons per second and change the state of the neural net within seconds.)
Stanford Ovshinsky (The Ovonic Cognitive Computer achieves the requirement of plasticity. Plasticity is encoded energy. Plasticity is the ability for a system to adapt in response to incoming energy signals. Ovshinsky has demonstrated that electrical and optical cognitive computing is possible. Ovonic optical and electrical phase change memories are devices composed of tellurium, germanium, and antimony and when exposed to optical or electrical energy change states from crystalline to amorphous or amorphous to crystalline.
Jolts of electricity switch chalcogenide patch between a orderly crystaline form and a more disordered, amorphous one. A lower energy warms the atoms of the amorphous state just enough so that they can rearrange themselves back into an orderly lattice. The amorphous state absorbs light and the crystalline state reflects and devices can distinquish between bits as 1s or 0s.
Ovonic devices within a network are adaptive and can be configured to function as weighting devices used to control the interconnection strength between the Ovonic devices. Thus, the Ovonic device is capable of synaptic function such as receiving and weighting multiple inputs that result in threshold activation. Activation is an operation mode that accumulates energy until a certain energy level is achieved and once reached the Ovonic device transforms from a high resistant state to a low resistant state mimicking the firing of a neuron. The Ovonic devices weighting can be controlled. The devices are small, operate at room temperature, possible of 2D and 3D device parallelism, and able to process and store information in a reconfigurational nonvolatile manner alleviating the need to separate memory and logic functions of a computer. Ovinshinsky suggests his networks are analogous to the quantum computer. Hard to believe since a quantum computer, if possible to build, is infinite solutions simulanteous. The biggest problem would be extraction from the solution set, since it is infinite.)
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Foresight in Science: Picking the Winners
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In Japan, the Delphi method is applied since 1971 to foresee possible technological developments. The same approach was used in Germany in 1992 for the first time. The German expert survey about the development of future technology was based on the Japanese survey conducted in 1991 and discussed the same topics. In this book, the results of both studies are compared and analysed. From the comparison, conclusions can be drawn on the relevance of certain technology fields or disciplines not only for public technology policy but also for companies. Possible times of realization, constraints on the realization, the current R&D level of nations or the necessity of international co-operation give hints about tomorrow's technology and its economic and societal impacts.
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This book is concerned with one of the most urgent problems of scientifically based planning and control of the development of science and technology - contemporary methods of analyzing and forecasting trends in scientific and technological progress.
The materials for this book are the most recent developments of Soviet and foreign students of science and also on the research carried out by the scientific collective headed by the author.
The book presents the original theoretical conception of scientific and technological forecasting and outlines forecasting methods of interest both for practical planning works in the field of scientific and technological development, and for the projection of complex scientific and technological objects required in advanced scientific information.
Similarly, the work is one of the first books in the USSR which systematically outlines and analyzes the contemporary state of scientific and technical forecasting as a complex problem in the study of science. Since this problem is of interest for wide circles in the scientific and technological community, the book has been written in a form intended for general use.
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Since the passage of the Science and Technology Basic Law in 1999, Taiwanese universities have taken a more ''scientific-economic'' approach to protect and commercialize their research. This research mainly examines innovation activities such as patenting, licensing, and incubated startups in the context of Taiwanese higher education institutions (HEIs). The ''scientific-economic'' framework used to analyze the strategic aspects influencing these academic innovations includes (1) intellectual property managerial capabilities, (2) the strength of external industrial partnerships, (3) the university entrepreneurial orientation, and (4) government research policy. Four hypotheses were developed. Data were collected via a questionnaire with all 122 HEIs in Taiwan surveyed. The research reveals that the aspects of intellectual property managerial capability, HEI-industry partnerships, and academic entrepreneurial orientation are useful to distinguish the university's innovation performance on patent grants, licensing incomes, and firm incubation. Also, government support on research plays a moderating role in academic innovation. Managerial and policy implications for managing innovation effectively in universities were drawn.
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Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor results in an odd displacement, in which the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones-easing a 'care deficit' in rich countries, while creating one back home. Confronting a range of topics from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles, Global Woman offers an original look at a world increasingly shaped by mass migration and economic exchange. Collected and with an Introduction by bestselling social critics Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this groundbreaking anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from developing nations is no longer gold or silver, but love.
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Thought provoking but a passive observer with no recommendations.......2006-01-01
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, Metropolitan Books, Holt & Co, 2002.
Most of us are well aware of the patterns of illegal immigration which bring numerous undocumented workers to the US and other developed countries from less developed countries. Those who work in agriculture, lawn care, and low paying jobs like janitors are well known. This book takes a detailed look at female migrant workers. These include maids, nannies, nurses, those who care for the young and elderly and extends to those kidnaped or sold into the sex slave trade and those who seek marriageable partners in developed countries to obtain visas. A single mother can earn enough in a developed country as a nurse, a nanny or as a prostitute to leave her children behind in the care of a relative and pay for their education and daycare. This process gives her children access to a better education that can lift them out of poverty.
This book is a collection of essays authored with assistance of researchers from numerous third world countries. The sociological aspect is consistent with Ehrenreich's usual works--always rich with social commentary. This time she functions as editor and provides one chapter from her earlier experience at Merry Maids as told in Nickeled and Dimed. Hochschild is professor of sociology at Berkeley.
The major migratory pathways for women are described generally as from south to north. In the US, African American women accounted for 60% of domestics in the 1940s. They have now been replaced by Latinas mostly from Mexico and Central America. In Europe migrants come from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the oil rich Mideast, many come from Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Phillippines, and Sri Lanka. In France, they now come from Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria; in Italy, from Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Cape Verde. Generally, migrants have replaced those who once came from poor rural areas of their own countries.
Several chapters on nannies and their problems are especially informative. The hours are long, overtime is seldom paid, time off it minimal, workers are sometimes farmed out to other families, or required to travel with the family on "holiday." The children often become attached to the nanny as part of the family, but this can result in jealousy on the part of birth mothers. Many nannies leave abruptly after an argument.
Various aspects of the sex trade are explored. In the Dominican Republic, married women may voluntarily go to the larger town of Sosua to work as prostitutes in the sex tourist industry. This good money is used to pay the family bills, but husbands sometimes spend the funds on alcoholism and gambling when the wife is away. Some prostitutes hope for a marriage proposal from German tourists. In Thailand, in the less prosperous mountain districts, daughters once were sold into sex slavery when the economic survival of the family required it. Now, rapid industrialization and rising standard of living have created major growth in sex tourism. Industrial workers have more money to spend on prostitutes. Mountain Thais now are more willing to sell their daughters to fund the purchase of electronics and other consumer goods.
In Viet Nam, the war killed many males and a disproportionate number of males were able to migrate to the US after the war. This has resulted in an over abundance of females. Educated females become un-marriageable. Arranged marriages with US citizens is one solution to this problem.
This book provides perspective on another aspect of the woman's rights movement in developing countries. Apparently several previous books have issued, but this subject has received little attention in the overall scheme of immigration policy. I saw no discussion of how these problems should be addressed. Presumably better laws are needed as well as a willingness to enforce existing laws in the case of the sex slavery and sex tourism. Different solutions seem appropriate in the case of licensed nurses who are aided in getting visas to fill a real shortage. The presence of undocumented migrants working as nannies and domestics is yet another problem. Perhaps different solutions are needed for each group. Mixing all of them in a single volume confuses the issues. The book lacks the impact it could have had.
This book is nicely done and thought provoking, but the absence of proposed solutions is a major omission. A collection of charts provide details of the female migrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Fact-filled, careful study.......2004-05-09
In brief essays, the authors present generally unbiased academic discussions of the globalization of female workers. Though hardly a new phenomenon, it has dramatically increased in the last 50 years and is a topic that is deserving of this type of examination. The topics are clearly delineated between domestic workers, cheap labor and the sex trade - however, there are unfortunates whose experiences range from one to the other out of necessity, desperation or coercion. This harsh reality of the vulnerability of these women is discussed with jargon-free, scholarly precision. Excellent for libraries, research and the well-read individual.
Good Overview of Female Migrant Workers.......2003-04-12
...Nevertheless, this book gives the reader valuable insight into the impact and opinions of women migrant workers in the service trades. All of the anthologized authors write in an accessible style free of academic jargon. I was particularly interested in the articles which did not have an American viewpoint and which presented the views of the women (and occasionally men) involved. For example, in various essays we get to meet Dominican women in the sex trade hoping to form relationships with European men; a college-educated Vietnamese women entering into an arranged marriage with an immigrant man holding an unskilled job in the U.S.; Filipina household workers laughing about the rules proposed by prospective Hong Kong employers; and a Sri Lankan man taking over the traditional woman's role to assist migrant relatives working in Saudi Arabia.
There are some gaps here, such as the lack of first-person narratives and the views of Eastern European women working in Western Europe, but no anthology can be all-inclusive. This book is a good start and will be an intersting learning experience for most readers.
nannies and sex workers in same title is offensive.......2003-03-05
As the mother of five that relied on childcare during the many years of single parenting I think we tend to concentrate too much on the elite and their need for childcare. The notion that this childcare contributes to the foreign exchange is a little off base when in reality it contributes to an underground economy because the salaries are mostly off the books and taxes are not paid in any form. Safety issues also arise when you consider that most of the illegeal aliens caring for our children have never had childhood immunizations, and refuse the TB test. This may sound unimportant and nit picking but the reality is diseases we thought were erradicated like whooping cough can be traced to the unimmunized worker. Leaving your children behind to take care of mine is something we as a nation should give more thought about.
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Title: Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy.(Book Review)
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