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Michio Kaku
Professor of Theoretical Physics
Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-founder of string field theory, and is one of the most widely recognized scientists in the world today. He has written 4 New York Times Best Sellers, is the science correspondent for CBS This Morning and has hosted numerous science specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery/Science Channel. His radio show broadcasts to 100 radio stations every week. Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York (CUNY), where he has taught for over 25 years. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study as well as New York University (NYU).
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Quantum computing already exists, but on a truly miniscule scale. We’ll probably have molecular computers before true quantum ones, says the physicist.
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The Internet, the European Union, and the Olympics are all signs that, within the next 100 years, mankind will become a truly planetary civilization.
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Enzymes like Telomerase and Resveratrol, though not the Fountain of Youth unto themselves, offer tantalizing clues to how we might someday soon unravel the aging process.
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Discovering the Theory of Everything would be the crowning achievement of modern science, allowing mankind to master time and space.
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There are no more evolutionary pressures driving gross human evolution, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be able to genetically re-engineer ourselves in the future.
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Theoretically, there could be people and planets made out of antimatter rather than matter, but where are they?
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By 2030 the physicist expects that we will have hot fusion reactors.