How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Following in the footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci and Jules Verne, Kaku, author
of a handful of books about science, looks into the not-so-distant future and
envisions what the world will look like. It should be an exciting place, with
driverless cars, Internet glasses, universal translators, robot surgeons, the
resurrection of extinct life forms, designer children, space tourism, a manned
mission to Mars, none of which turn out to be as science-fictiony as they sound.
In fact, the most exciting thing about the book is the fact that most of the
developments Kaku discusses can be directly extrapolated from existing
technologies. Robot surgeons and driverless cars, for example, already exist in
rudimentary forms. Kaku, a physics professor and one of the originators of the
string field theory (an offshoot of the more general string theory), draws on
current research to show how, in a very real sense, our future has already
been written. The book's lively, user-friendly style should appeal equally to
fans of science fiction and popular science.-David Pitt

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