MICHIO KAKU Renowned Scientist The Next 20 Years By Dr. Michio Kaku  Prof. of Theoretical Physics  City Univ. of New York  Author: Visions: How Science Will  Revolutionize the 21st Century, Hyperspace, Parallel Worlds, Physics of the Impossible Co-founder of string field theory  Interviewed 300 of the world’s  top scientists. NY Times Best Seller  Physics of the Impossible “Invisibility  Teleportation  Telepathy  Psychokinesis  Star ships  Time travel  Faster than light travel via wormholes  NY Times Best Seller  The Future of the Mind # 1 New York Times Best Seller The next frontier of science: Telepathy  Telekinesis  Uploading Memories  Photographing dreams  Replacing the internet with a brain net  Making a back-up copy of the brain  First Wave of Technology – 1800s: Steam Power Machines and the locomotive of the 1800s create the excess wealth of the industrial revolution, leading to a bubble on the London Stock Exchange and the Crash of 1850. Second Wave – Electricity and Automobiles and Crash of 1929 Advances in electricity and automobiles create fabulous wealth,  leads to wild speculation, which cannot be sustained. Third Wave: High Tech and Crash of 2008 wealth created by computers, satellites, lasers, telecommunications, the internet, create a bubble, which cannot be sustained, leading to a crash The next 100 years: What is the Fourth Wave? First wave: Steam power and locomotive  Second Wave: Electricity and automobile  Third Wave: High tech  What is the Fourth Wave??  Telecommunications and computers Biotechnology Artificial Intelligence Nanotechnology Moore’s Law Doubling time for computer power  is 18 months Future can be reasonably predicted  out to 2020 By 2020, chips may cost a penny  Millions of chips will be scattered  into our world The computer will be everywhere,  and nowhere After 2020: Post-silicon era:  Quantum computing - Artificial intelligence – jobs and society The Internet: The Magic Mirror-the internet will be everywhere, including glasses