The Future of Humanity

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

By: Michio Kaku

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The national bestselling author of The God Equation traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies.

“Amazing … Kaku is in smooth perfect control of it the entire time.” —The Christian Science Monitor

We are entering a new Golden Age of space exploration. With irrepressible enthusiasm and a deep understanding of the cutting-edge research in space travel, world-renowned physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku presents a compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals the developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology that may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars and beyond. He then journeys out of our solar system and discusses how new technologies such as nanoships, laser sails, and fusion rockets may actually make interstellar travel a possibility. We travel beyond our galaxy, and even beyond our universe, as Kaku investigates some of the hottest topics in science today, including warp drive, wormholes, hyperspace, parallel universes, and the multiverse. Ultimately, he shows us how humans may someday achieve a form of immortality and be able to leave our bodies entirely, laser porting to new havens in space.

Critic reviews

“The wide popular interest in Elon Musk’s recent launch of one of his own Tesla cars into space shows the extent to which space travel has again become mass entertainment as well as, perhaps, mass aspiration. It is good timing, then, for a book by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku on the possible paths to our future as a galaxy-trotting species. . . . With admirable clarity and ease, Mr. Kaku rehearses the history of rocketry and the formation of the planets, and 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 is a practiced and very effective popularizer of science for a general audience; he's unfailingly interesting, with an unerring instinct for the most thought-provoking aspects of his various subjects. The sheer amount of technical scientific speculation in The Future of Humanity is amazing, and yet Kaku is in smooth, perfect control of it the entire time.”
—Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor

A bridge between science fiction and science fact.

Quite an interesting book if you're looking for an overview of emerging technologies that might pave the way towards a future in the stars. I could have done without the bit about global warming, not because I don't believe in climate change but when I read Michio Kaku I want his opinions in the field he is an expert in, I don't particularly care for his opinions otherwise. (I don't ask my engineer father for medical advice or the like.) Overall though, it's a great book.

In Layman’s terms

I’m not a theoretical physics student, or any other type of physics student. Once again, Dr Kaku does an incredible job of using plain language to explain the impressive theories and phenomena in this book in such as a way as to make me wish I was a theoretical physics student to assist in the search for the solution to the unified field theory.

the future of humanity!

loved it ! never lost lost interest in it , entertaining and full of scientific facts , learned a lot of new cool stuff about the cosmos ! it even recommended several interesting movies which I didn't know about them, the best of all is that you get to listen and learn from 1 of the most well respected scientists of our times Mr Michio Kaku . also the narrator kept this boon interesting all the time and made it more into like a "CAN'T STOP LISTENING " audiobook!
IF WE CAN SURVIVE THE NEXT 200 YEARS WE HUMANS WILL BE SAFE AS WE ARE GOING TO REACH THE STARS ! our survival is not in mother earth but in the galaxy! go ahead read it or listen to it you wont regret it !

Interesting

This is an interesting book even if you aren't really into science normally. I highly recommend it!

Understanding what's in-store for us.

very insightful look at what may be in store for the human race as we know it.