The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
by Michio Kaku
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Answering questions first from a moderator and then from the audience at Google, the author marvels over the plummeting cost of space exploration. He mentions, for example, that the Matt Damon movie “The Martian” cost over $100 million to make while the Indian government sent a probe to Mars for $70 million. He says he writes his books for the kid version of himself, because when he was a child he would go to the library looking for books on certain scientific questions and walk away empty-handed.
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Author speaks in talking-head format on end of humanity
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Saying that both Nature and the laws of physics equate to a “death warrant” for humanity, the author asserts that our future is in outer space. He describes Isaac Asimov’s influence on him as a kid, and talks about his deceased colleague Stephen Hawking. He urges anyone who doesn’t believe we are doomed to simply look under their feet, where they will find remnants of all the species that have gone extinct: 99.99% of all those that have ever existed.
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Author chats with Morning News crew about humanity’s future
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Author Michio Kaku sits down with CBS Morning News both to warn that humanity’s end is inevitable and to express great excitement about the current state of space exploration, saying that American billionaires investing in space while NASA continues its research puts us in a golden age. While the author admits that he personally does not want to go to Mars, calling himself “a coward,” he emphasizes that we need a “plan B” because Earth will eventually become uninhabitable.
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Asserting that we must “keep our own house in order” by fixing global warming, the author also says that we need to establish “an outpost” on another planet as a “plan B.” Telling jokes, reminiscing about his childhood, and exuding enthusiasm about private citizens investing in space, Kaku emphasizes that the dinosaurs are not here today because they did not have a space program. He describes various catastrophes that have struck Earth, from the Toba volcano eruption to the Irish potato famine.
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Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist at the City College of New York, best-selling author, acclaimed public speaker, and renowned futurist. As a co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku continues Einstein’s quest to unify the four fundamental forces of Nature into a single grand theory of everything.
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The New York Times: Downloadable Neurons, Life on Mars: A Physicist’s View of Where We’re Headed
The Wall Street Journal: Review: Onward, Upward and ‘The Future of Humanity’
The Christian Science Monitor: 'The Future of Humanity' recommends evacuating Earth in order to save the species
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