Fisica del futuro. Come la scienza cambierà il destino dell'umanità e la nostra vita quotidiana entro il 2100

This was a horrible book. I gave up on it a third of the way through. I'm not sure why people give the author high marks. Perhaps his earlier works are better and he phone this one in. The book claims to look at scientific advances in a number of fields (computers, biology, etc), and drawing from int Leggi tutto

ENGLISH What a significant and visionary milestone in the evolution of the entertaining non-fiction book. How difficult it sometimes has to be to breathe life into the scientific genre can be measured by the memory of the response to textbooks at school, which can happily be described as mixed. In so Leggi tutto

This books is more about the TECHNOLOGY of the future than the physics thereof. Really, if you've kept up with Tech news, you can just skip reading this book... I counted no fewer than 34 references to "God" or "gods", a bad sign on it's own. There is more time dedicated to ancient mythology than to ac Leggi tutto

I got this book out of the local library because I heard the author on NPR and the book sounded interesting. I'm doing research for a near-future sci-fi novel and this sounded right up my alley. First of all, the title is a misnomer. This book should be called Technology of the Future, as it's only t Leggi tutto

Excellent when Kaku focuses on technology, physics or string theory. When he veers onto other topics such as history, education, or culture Kaku produces about one WTF? statement per page. Not only are his opinions on these subjects often totally unsupported by evidence, they occasionally contradict Leggi tutto

Apie šią knygą galima kalbėti daug ir ilgai, bet pakaks pasakyti tiek: jei išsipildys bent trečdalis to, ką Michio Kaku numano, kaip galimą žmonijos ateitį, mes iš esmės būsim dievais. Bent jau pagal tradicinį, antikinį ar pagoniškąjį dievų supratimą. Taip, yra ir čia keistų prognozių. Yra ir tokių Leggi tutto

This is probably not a book some hard-core science fuddy-duddy is going to enjoy. But if you are just fascinated by learning new things or contemplating the future, this soft-core science book is for you. For me, any book that makes learning fun is a good one. Just think of how many people will pick Leggi tutto

I read a couple hundred pages on an airplane, and I regret having made an impulse-purchase of this book in the airport bookstore. Like others, I was disturbed by the poor writing (annoying tone, repetitive and useless allusions to mythology, weird Star Trek obsession...). And as others stressed (and Leggi tutto