No Flying Car, But How About An Invisibility Cloak?
Mar 27
npr.org – [...] It’s the first day of 2100, and here’s how your morning might unfold: You stumble into the bathroom to wash your face and brush your teeth. Tiny microchips in your toothbrush and your toilet instantly analyze your health. You wrap a few wires around your head and mentally cue up soothing music and fried eggs for breakfast. When you’re ready, you issue another mental command to your magnetic car, and it leaves the garage and cruises up to your front door.
Sound crazy? According to physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, all these technologies are not only possible, they’re already in development.
Kaku has written a new book, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100. [...] “Think of what you can do,” Kaku says. “When you meet somebody, your contact lens will identify who that person is, print out their biography next to that person’s image, and then translate, from Chinese into English or whatever.” He compares it to the technology Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator character used to identify his opponents
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