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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

by: Michio Kaku

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 501.12
EAN: 9780385484992
ISBN: 0385484992
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: September 15, 1998
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: September 15, 1998
Sales Rank: 55546
Studio: Anchor



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Kaku's thrilling, unique narrative introduces a world in which we are no longer passive bystanders to the dance of the universe, but creative choreographers of matter, life, and intelligence. 'With this fascinating volume, Kaku positions himself as a worthy successor to the late Carl Sagan as spokesman for the potential of science to revolutionize our lives'.--'Kirkus Reviews'.

Amazon.com Review:
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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Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Great for 1997, not so great for now
PROS: Sweeping overview of many technological and scientific endevors. Clear, simple writing. Good ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - HS Physics Teacher
Personally the book was stimulating and thought provoking. Since Visions was printed in the late 90's ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Read & Invest
Visions can be broken down into 2 different "main" subjects...computer technology and the medical field, ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Michio Kaku, Santa Clara County Legend
Michio Kaku was a high school legend in Santa Clara County, long before it was deemed Silicon Valley. His ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A seismic shift in my thinking
For me, the best books are the ones that facilitate a fundamental shift in the assumptions I have about the ... Read More

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