Guessing what the future holds for us a challenge in making guesses
Kaku, who holds the Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York, has used interviews with 300 of the world’s top scientists to piece together a vision of the breakthroughs and timescales that are going to shape the world of our children’s children, and very likely the robots that will serve them.
The scope is necessarily huge; the guesses, reasonable under the circumstances. A future as distant to us now as the first flight of the Wright Brothers, and as alien to us as our fast-paced information-led world would be to the pilots of the Flyer, is not easy to describe.
