Michio Kaku's "Physics of the future"

[KJbushway]

its red and looks like a jet mixed with the bat mobile?

 

[Shatnertage]

I've got to think that adding the ability to hover would kick your gas mileage down to about .5 MPG.

Fun fact: A Cessna 172, which is about as close as you can get to a flying car these days, runs at an effective equivalent of approximately 15 MPG (heavily depending on wind conditions of course).

Interesting.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

I just finished reading the book "Physics of the future" by Physicist and Futurist Michio Kaku where he describes his vision of the year 2100. What do people think?

I think that like many futurists, Michio Kaku is ultimately an attention whore who will say or do anything to get on TV and/or sell his books. Which wouldn't be so irksome to me except that the two subjects on which he talks the most--astrophyisics and the future--both have virtually zero criterion for actually knowing what you're talking about, primarily because even if he says something completely asinine, nobody's supposed to be smart enough to call him on it.

 

[Demosthenes]

It's a great book, I think Michio actually comes across like he knows what he is talking about, rather than just pulling predictions out of his arse. http://www.futuretimeline.net/ is a great site which pulls together all sorts of predictions by futurists like Michio in one place, if you're interested in more of the same.

 

[scotthm]

...is a great site which pulls together all sorts of predictions by futurists...

I suppose if you throw enough things at the wall one or two of them will stick.

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