Michio Kaku gave a speach last night at the local university. Apart from a quick plug for his new book, it was mostly about predicting the future technology and related lifestyle trends. TL/DR: he should stick with predictions instead of talking about the past.
He had a strange intro on "physicists causing the economic expansions and related bubbles". It was a real stretch. Yes, technology may have allowed the sudden growth in certain areas (steam and railroads), computers, etc, but physicists were responsible for the housing crunch in 2007/8? Really?
When he got around to talking about where technology will go, he was a bit better off. His discussions of augmented reality and integration of computing power into everything were interesting. His predictions on medical advances, while all plausible are not likely to be mainstream in the timeframes he was talking about. He gave one sentence to the subject of not having any privacy because of all this computing power. I would have preferred more.
He is a very engaging speaker. I prefer Neil deGrasse Tyson, but that's just personal preference. Kaku comes off almost too polished. Even during Q&A, he adjusted audience questions to fit into a stock speech. There did not appear to be any wheels turning to actually think about the questions. Meh - no big deal. I have nothing scientific to try to ding him for.
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He had a strange intro on "physicists causing the economic expansions and related bubbles". It was a real stretch. Yes, technology may have allowed the sudden growth in certain areas (steam and railroads), computers, etc, but physicists were responsible for the housing crunch in 2007/8? Really?
When he got around to talking about where technology will go, he was a bit better off. His discussions of augmented reality and integration of computing power into everything were interesting. His predictions on medical advances, while all plausible are not likely to be mainstream in the timeframes he was talking about. He gave one sentence to the subject of not having any privacy because of all this computing power. I would have preferred more.
He is a very engaging speaker. I prefer Neil deGrasse Tyson, but that's just personal preference. Kaku comes off almost too polished. Even during Q&A, he adjusted audience questions to fit into a stock speech. There did not appear to be any wheels turning to actually think about the questions. Meh - no big deal. I have nothing scientific to try to ding him for.
CT
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