Michio Kaku on Interstellar Travel, Artificial Intelligence, and Immortality
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Mining asteroids, traveling on laser beams, and developing self-aware robots: science fiction or science fact? World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku says that these milestones are not only in humanity's future, but are beginning to occur right now. Dr. Kaku joins the Curiosity Podcast for a fascinating inside look at interstellar travel, artificial intelligence, human immortality, and alien contact.
Additional links from Dr. Michio Kaku:
- Official Website of Dr. Michio Kaku
- Dr. Michio Kaku on Twitter @MichioKaku
- "The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth"
- "Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel"
- "The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind"
Other resources discussed:
- How Elon Musk Names His Inventions | Inverse
- New technology is forcing us to confront the ethics of bringing people back from the dead | Quartz
- Eternime wants you to live forever as a digital ghost | CNET
- Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities | MIT
- When you have an itch, what is happening under your skin? | HowStuffWorks
- Cody Gough on Twitter @ProducerCody
- Ashley Hamer on Twitter @SmashleyHamer
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| 0:00.0 | I am curious why is the second space race so important to pay attention to? |
| 0:05.4 | Well first of all you have to realize that the dinosaurs did not have a space program |
| 0:10.3 | and that's why the dinosaurs are not here today to talk about it. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't know what hit them. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi, I'm Cody Gough with the Pro Space Program Curiosity.com. |
| 0:28.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:29.2 | Today we're going to learn about the future of humanity. |
| 0:32.1 | Interstellar travel, artificial intelligence, and even human immortality. |
| 0:36.0 | They're not just science fiction, they're starting to happen right now. |
| 0:40.0 | This week, we really explore what we don't know because curiosity makes you smarter. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the Curiosity Podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | We're not going to say the Earth is doomed, but at some point you've got to realize that our planets does have an expiration date. |
| 0:56.4 | Do we have what it takes to get off this rock before the end of the world? |
| 0:59.7 | Today's guest thinks so. Dr. Michio Kaku is a professor of physics at City University of New York, |
| 1:05.6 | co-founder of Stringfield Theory, and the author of a lot of super popular science books, |
| 1:11.3 | including his newest book, The Future of Humanity. |
| 1:14.4 | This guy is the real deal. |
| 1:16.2 | If you like reading articles on curiosity.com, then you will love his book, which is super |
| 1:21.2 | accessible and gets into all the details we won't have time to talk |
| 1:24.7 | about in this episode. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah, we don't really have time to completely explain all the technology he mentions, |
| 1:30.1 | but we'll do our best. |
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