Keynote+Speaker-+Feb.+13;+Michio+Kaku

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The future: Kaku's thoughts: -Moore's Law -The internet will be in our contacts, especially useful for the military -Augumented reality-imposed information on top of reality -Wall paper will be changeable because of the internet -The internet will reduce medical costs-"internet wall paper" -Wall screens -Toys, candy, food, legal advice, etc. will be cheaper -English Language being reduced -What will the classroom look like? Will it be too mechanical or impersonal? Technology has its roots in beating the Soviety Unit. No censorship. No longer male. More personal and reaching out and touching people. Social networking. ie: Nursing homes network people with the same hobbies around the country/world -Living rooms like the Matrix or Holiday -3D classrooms -In the future computers will be like paper (everywhere and nowhere); It will be the scribbles not the computer-ie: the Cloud -3-D w/out glasses -Cars will drive themselves; Saftr?? Computers don't get drunk or get distracted -Cancer will lessen-nanoparticles-molecules that target certain cancerous cells -Toilets will destroy tumors; it will detect them 10 years before they form -MRIs are so huge but physicists have made a smaller verison (small as a brie case) and even smaller (cell phone size) -eliminate the keyboard and mouse; chips put into brains and the thought of it moves a cursor; A paralyzed person can operate a computer like I can. -Steven Hawkins -Avatars-ie: for space exploration due to the high cost -Grow body parts

Reflection: Kaku presents many fascinating possibilities about what the technology may be able to do! Having several family members with cancer I was really captivated by the potentional of nanoparticles and early detection, as well lowering the cost of medical care. As a wife of a mechanical engineer who is fascinated with space I think about possibilities for some of my husbands career goals. Though much of what Kaku said impressed me some of it made me uncomfortable as I don't want society to be governed by computers and the ability to think for oneself to be overshadowed by technology.