#devlearn - Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku (keynote notes)

Michio Kaku

Woody Allen - eternity is a really longtime, especially towards the end.

Education hasn't changed much in 2000 years. 1:1 mentoring, classrooms.

Moore's law - computer power doubles every 18 months. The little chip in birthday cards have more power than the Allied Forces of 1945. Cellphones have more than NASA had sending human people to the moon.

This change takes us into the future. In 2020 computer chips will cost a penny. The future of the computer then is to eventually disappear. Example. Electricity is everywhere and no where. We don't even think about it because it is everywhere. The same will happen with computers. The Cloud is an extension of the Moore's law curve. The Internet too is becoming very much everywhere and no where.
Glasses will be something we all wear as a portable computer screen. Translating languages. Recognizing the world around us and giving us information. If not glasses, then on to contact lenses. Blink if the eye and you'll be online. Politicians will see telepromters on their lens. Actors could see their lines. Jet pilots could see everything that is around them. Cameras on all sides of a plane and they will "see though objects".

In other words....augmented reality. Everything becomes annotated. Think of The Terminator. Everything we see and touch will have notes, information, extra pictures, notes from other people.

In the future their will be a continum between all devices. Watches, cellphones, tablets. Even paper will become intelligent....flexible screens.

Imagine wallpaper that you just touch to change it. Wallpaper imbedded with chips. Walls will also have screens built right into them. (edocs answering medical questions, elaywers answering legal questions). Wall screens covering each surface. We will go to wall screens to find friends, see who else is "looking at their screens". We will watch movies on our wall screens, but we will be able to put our faces into the movie and onto actors within. Cyber pets that will run from one wall screen to another.

Internet was initially "male" created to dominate and take over the Soviet Union. Now it is "female" all about connections and reaching out to others.

We are building up to true 3d holo deck situations. Full emersion into our studying and work environments.

Seemless interaction everywhere you go. Hardware will be cheap, software to do all this interaction will be the expensive commodity.

3D tv without glasses. Lenticular lens. More than one images is projected to left and right eyes to give 3D effect.

Cars of the future will drive themselves for us. Using GPS, radar and chips. These already exist. We can take this travel time and turn into learning. This will be available opinion 8 years.

Surgery, cancer diagnosis, MRI, will never be touched by this technology.....wrong. It will. Experts knowledge will be put knot software. Artificial intelligence. Tv cameras and chips small enough to swallow in pill form. For coloscopies (example).

Can already get these down to the size of molecules. These tiny ones will target and kill cancer cells. Cancer diagnosis from a toilet. Toilets will be able to detect certain proteins that will alert you to the first signs of cancer cells. Miniature MRI machines. Size of a briefcase, but they will be able to get them down to a cellphone size.

30 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE

Paralyzed man with chip implanted into brain. He can move cursors and interact with any computer software. Another person will be able to interact with a robot, creating and
Avatar experience.

$50000 today okay to sequence genes right now. In 30 years it will be $100. This will enable us to see if we have predispositions to various diseases. We will also use this to create organs, lines, bones (we can do this now with ears, noses, blood, bladders, wind pipe, in 1 year a liver).

50 YEARS
Growing entire organs. Learning. Will be everywhere. Discovery Channel video - 2057
Clothing will have chips in them and monitor our health. If you fall or injure yourself the clothing will be able to notify for medical help.

Human body shops to fix any medical issue we have. New hearts, valves, hips.
Surgeons will manipulate 3d images of our bodies. Virtual surgery will be done while robots do the actual cutting.

Our children are wired and they will love thirst changes. We may be fearful, but think back to how people of the past may have thought about electricity. At one point we point everyone may be electrocuted. Fear is a part if each modern change. We love electricity. We love phones. We will love all this change eventually as well.

Example. Facebook has spread democracy around the world. This is all bigger than just education
But, the human in the loop will always be needed. The computers are not