The Future of Humanity

The Future of Humanity

Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond

Summary

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

The No.1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future in space

Human civilization is on the verge of living beyond Earth. But how will it happen? World-renowned physicist Michio Kaku takes us on a journey to the future, introducing the mind-boggling developments in robotics, nanotechnology and biotechnology that will one day enable us to make our homes among the stars.

'With admirable clarity and ease, Kaku explains how we might colonize not only Mars but some of the rocky moons of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn . . . The book has an infectious, can-do enthusiasm' Steven Poole, The Wall Street Journal

'Kaku grounds his readers in science happening right now, while throwing open the windows to imagine where it might lead in a thousand years' Adam Frank, The New York Times Book Review

'Kaku is an international treasure and a man of infectious enthusiasm' The Times

About the author

Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku is a professor of physics at the City University of New York, co-founder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Hyperspace, Beyond Einstein, Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and The God Equation: The Quest for the Theory of Everything.
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