Visions

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-288018-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 200 mm, Gewicht: 310 g

New in paperback, from the bestselling author of Hyperspace, this spellbinding book brings together the cutting-edge research of today's foremost scientists to explore the science of tomorrow. Michio Kaku describes the development of computers and artificial intelligence, reveals how the decoding of the genetic structure of DNA will allow us to alter and reshape our genetic inheritance, and observes how quantum physicists are perfecting new ways of harnessing the matter and energy of the Universe. Visions is an exhilarating adventure into the future of our planet and ourselves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaku, Michio

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Geschichte der Chemie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Part 1: Visions

- 1: Choreographers of matter, life, and intelligence

- Part 2: The Computer Revolution

- 2: The invisible computer

- 3: The intelligent planet

- 4: Machines that think

- 5: Beyond silicon; cyborgs and the ultimate computer

- 6: Second thoughts: will humans become obsolute?

- Part 3: The Biomolecular Revolution

- 7: Personal DNA codes

- 8: Conquering cancer - fixing our genes

- 9: Molecular medicine and the mind/body link

- 10: To live forever?

- 11: Playing God: designer children and clones

- 12: Second thoughts: brave new world?

- Part 4: The Quantum Revolution

- 13: The quantum future

- 14: To reach for the stars

- 15: Birth of a planetary civilization

- 16: Children of the stars

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michio Kaku is Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York. An internationally acclaimed physicist, he is the co-founder of the string field theory. He hosts a weekly hour-long radio science programme in the USA, and has appeared on many television programmes.