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Print Price: $61.95

Format:
Paperback
415 pp.
5 halftones, 129 mm x 196 mm

ISBN-13:
9780192880185

Publication date:
March 1999

Imprint: OUP UK

Visions

How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

Michio Kaku

New in paperback, from the bestselling author of Hyperspace, this spellbinding book brings together the cutting-edge research of today's foremost scientists to explore the science of tomorrow. Michio Kaku describes the development of computers and artificial intelligence, reveals how the decoding of the genetic structure of DNA will allow us to alter and reshape our genetic inheritance, and observes how quantum physicists are perfecting new ways of harnessing the matter and energy of the Universe. Visions is an exhilarating adventure into the future of our planet and ourselves.

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

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

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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.

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