mark the Yankees win of the first game of the series. For those of you that are new to the event, let
me tell you a little about the Presidential Lecture Series. We started this series in the year 2001
and the purpose is to showcase the tremendous talent of the faculty of the City University of New York. And the formula is very simple.
In the fall semester, we invite one of the distinguished professors of the City University of New York
or some National figure that has something to do with the City University of New York. We invite one
of our own to be the Presidential Lecutre speaker. We have a committee of faculty that is composed of
Dr. Sheena Gallaspy, Dr. Peter Gray, Dr. Cathrburl, and Dr. Sasan Kurimi. If they are here please stand
up so we can recognize you. These are the individuals that bear the brunt of the consequences of asking
the wrong speaker to come and speak to you. But they haven't missed yet. And frankly i think that today
we have one of the most popular, the first time that we have a television star among our midst, and the
frist time, maybe not the first, but the first time we have one of the recognized 100 brightest people
in New York City by New York Magazine. This is professor Kaku who is distinguished professor at City
College and he is a theoretical physicist and the Henry Samat Professor at the City College of New York a
nd the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has taught for over 30 years, and he is
a graduate of community college of Harvard, (joke) and now he's at Queensborough and he has earned his
doctorate in Physics from the University of California, Berkley. He is one of the founders of the string
filled theory. Now you know about string theory, maybe some of you may know some about it, but i know
that all of you know about Star Trek and Beat Me Up Scotty, and all of you know about energy fields so
you all know a little about string theory. I really personally believe that Dr. Kaku is a contendor and
eventually will be a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics because of his work and i hope that that happens.
We are going to have the pleasure of seeing him today, but if you want to see him on television on December 1st.
He starts a new series on the Sci-Fi channel and i hope that you all see it. I was very interested in
looking over the book "Physics of the Impossible" because it addresses Science Fiction technology will
be something real in the future, and we can think about the possibilites, think about somebody in the
year 1901 thinking about going from New York to Europe in five hours. Think about the impact of technology.
And i am certain he is going to talk about all that. But use a little extrapolation and look at what
can happen in the future, and then look a little bit to the Star Treks of the world and see how somebody
imagined what can happen in the future. But thats all in our imagination, lets talk to an expert, lets
talk to someone who knows the theory behind all that technology. Please, please help me welcome Dr. Kaku.
Thank you very much, after such a great introduction i cant wait to meet the speaker myself. Let me a
lso say i have an admission to make. I have to confess that New York Magazine voted me as one of the
100 smartest people in New York, however in all fairness i have to say that Madona also made that list,
so how accurate could that list be. Now today i'm going to talk about the future, 20, 30 40 years in
to the future. I have had the privelege to interview 300 of the worlds top scientists. Now i'm a physicist,
we're the ones that invented the laser, the transistor, we created the electronic computer, we created
television, radio, microwaves, MRI, we created the internet, we wrote the world wide web. Now whenever
we create something, we predict how our creation is going to preliforate through society. When we helped
to invent the internet, one physicist made a prediction. He said that the itnernet will become a forum
of high culture, high art, and high society. Well today we know that 5% of the internet is pornography.
But thats because teenage boys log onto the internet, not anyone here. And just wait til the grandmas
and grandpas log onto the internet. Then 50% of the internet will be pornography. Let me also say that
when i was just a little younger than you guys, i was fascinated by physics. For me physics was the way
to go. So when i was in highschool i went up to my mom and i said "Mom can i have permission to build
an atom smasher in the garage." A 2.3 million electron volt electron particle exelerator. And my mom
looked at me and said "Sure, why not. Don't forget to take out the garbage." So i took out the garbage
and i went to Westinghouse and i got 400 pounds of transformer steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and i
built a 2.3 million electron volt electron exelerator in my garage. The magnetic field was 10,000 gauss.
If you want, buy the magnets. It was powerful enough to pull the fillings out of your teeth if you got
too close to my magnets. Finally it was ready. I plugged it into the wall socket. It consumed 6 kilowatts
of raw electrical power. I could hear the crackling of all the capacitors and then i heard this "pop
pop pop sound and the whole house was filled with darkness.
I had blown out every single fuse in the house. My poor mom, you know she came home from a hard days
work, the lights would flicker and die. Then she's say "Where's the fuse box?" and then she'd say "Why
couldn't i have a son that plays baseball? Maybe if i buy him a basketball. For God's sake, why does he have to build these machines in the garage.
And hey, why can't he find a nice Japanese girlfriend." Why does he have to build these machines in the
garage? Well that machine got me into Harvard where i began my career as a physicist. So today, i'm going
to give you a guided tour of the future, however, there is a danger that sometimes we physicists know
to much. Let me tell you a story and then i'll begin. Over 200 years ago we had the great French Revolution,
and one day there were 3 gentlemen about to lose their heads to the guillotine. There was a priest, a
lawyer, and a theoretical physicist just like me about to have our heads cut off. Well they put the priests
head on the chopping block and they asked him, do you have any last words before we cut your priestly
head off? And the priest said yes, yes. He said "God, God from above, he shall certainly set me free."
Well all eyes were on the blade. They raised the blade. The blade came down (swish) and it stopped right
before it hit the neck of the priest. Well the mob had never seen this before, they were shocked, They
said God has spoken, let the priest go. Now lets see about the lawyer. Now the blood lust was starting,
yes the lawyer. They put the lawyers head on the chopping block and they asked him, do you have any last
words before we cut your lawyerly head off and he said yes. Maybe the spirit of justice, justice and
mercy shall set me free. So they raised the blade, and it came down like (swish) and it stopped right
before the neck of the lawyer. Well this time the crowd went crazy. They said, let there be a national
holiday, today God has spoken, justice and mercy have spoken today, and now lets see about that theoretical
physicist. Well they put the physicist head on the chopping block and they asked him if he had any last
words before we cut your head off and he said Yeah, yeah, i got some last words. He said you know, i
dont know too much about God, and i know less about the law. But i do know one thing. If you look up
you'll see that the rope is stuck on the pulley. And then he said, if you remove the rope, the blade
should come down real good. Big mistake, big mistake. Well the rope came down, the blade came down, and t
hen the poor physicist head came down. And well the moral of the story is sometimes we physicists have t
o know when to keep our mouth shut. For nontheless. Let me give you a guided tour through the future
because ive had a chance to interview over 300 of the worlds top scientists. These are the people inventing
the future. First of all let me say that if you get cable television, you get the science channel. On
the science channel starting December 1st, as it was mentioned, my book "Physics of the Impossible" is
going to be appearing as a weekly TV series that i am going to be hosting. Watch for it December first
and every week after that. They call it Sci-Fi Science: Science of the Impossible. So let's talk about t
hat. First of all, how do we scientists know what's going to happen 10, 20 years in the future. How can
we be so confident. Well first of all this is Moore's Law. On a log chart you can see that computer power
doubles every 18 months. Now, what does that mean? This means that when you get a birthday card in the
mail, you open it up and there's a chip in it. And the chip sings "Happy birthday to you." Well that
chip contains more computer power than all the allied forces of 1945. Hitler, Eisenhower, Churchill would
have killed to get that chip. Now what do you do with that chip? You throw it away in the garbage. Or
look at this chart, you'll see that way back in the 1960's, NASA had almost no computer power. Your c
cell phone today, one cell phone today, has more computer power according to this chart than all of NASA's when they put two men on the moon.
This means that if car's obeyed Moore's law, cars today would cost 10 cents. This means that when you
park the car, you wouldn't even bother to put a quarter in the meter. The meter cost more than the car.
So you would just park the car and walk away from it. So what does this mean? This means that by 2020
computer chips will cost about a penny. That is the cost of scrap paper. So we now know the future of
the computer. The future of the computer will be everywhere and nowhere. Hidden in the walls, hidden
in the fabric of our life, just like electricity is. It is everywhere and nowhere. And this is the internet.
We wrote the world wide web. The world wide web was written by a physicist to keep track of subatomic
particles. And you can see here that the internet corresponds with prosperity. Where there is the internet, there
is prosperity, there is commerce, science, finance. Where there is no internet, there is poverty. So
one thing that we physicists do is we create something and then we simply give it away for free. So how
will you communicate with the internet in the future? These are glasses that contain full internet capability.
You can download any website, any movie, do e-mails from these things and they will also recognize people's
faces. How many times have you bumped into somebody on the street and you say to yourself "Who is this
person? Jim, John, Jake, i know i know this person." In the future your glasses will say, "It's Jim stupid,
remember? You met him last week. Do you want to see his entire biography for you in your glasses?" and
lets say you're at a cocktail party, and you're looking for a job and you don't know who the heavy hitters
are. In the future you will know exactly who to suck up to at any cocktail party. Well let's say you
don't want to look like a refuge from Star Trek. In the future, glasses will be fashionable with full
internet capability. They can be flashed directly into the retina of your eye, they could be flashed
right onto the screen of your glasses, or used as an attachment to your glasses. Fashion models will
be wearing these things, young people will demand to have full internet capability. Any video, any movie,
any website, and music downloaded via your glasses. And you say to yourself "Wait a minute, maybe i don't
wear glasses." No problem, in the future they'll be in your contact lenses. These are internet contact
lenses that we physicists are trying to build. Imagine trying to take a final examination. HAH! Immediately
the lightbulbs begin to flash, right? Think of taking a final examination. You realize that in the future
professors are going to have to throw out their final exam, because you can't simply record memorization
on a final exam anymore. You'll have to convey concepts, principles, rather than memorizing the names
of the crystals or the shapes of the minerals or whatever. Imagine full internet capability in your glasses.
Well we pysicists are working on this even as we speak. Imagine for example, going to a foreign country.
You bump into somebody and they start to talk to you in a foreign language. No problem. In the future
you will see subtitles of a foreign language in your contact lense. And let's say you visit the ruins
of Rome. It's such a big disappointment, you read about the Great Roman empire but then you see what's
left. Almost nothing left of the empire. You go to the Roman Forum and you only use imagination thinking
of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony at the Roman Forum. No problem, your contact lense will recreate the
full animation of the height of the Roman Empire as you walk through the ruins. This is called augmented
reality. Not virtual reality. A mixture of reality with animation, with subtitles, with translations.
Let's say you're driving a car. Your contact lense will give you how fast you're moving, how much gas
you have, and even point out land marks as you're driving. GPS, all of that without ever having to leave
the steering wheel of your car. This is what happens with Moore's law. The computer chip will cost a
penny, like electricity, they'll be everywhere, and nowhere. When you walk into a room today, what do
you do. You look for the light switch right? The first thing you do is look for the light switch. You
assume the walls have electricity, even though it's invisible. In the future when you walk into the room,
the first thing you're going to do is look for the internet portal. You will assume the room is intelligent.
So this is your cell phone of the future. This is how you will communicate with others. One screen for
any video, one screen for any website, one screen for any movie that's ever been done. You will access
the entire database of the planet, almost for free. Let's say you have a Blackberry. You know how tiny
that Blackberry's keyboard is. Well in the future we'll have E-Paper. You'll simply scroll out paper
which is intelligent. And you'll type on that sheet of paper. So your cell phone is an entire PC. In fact
it has more power than a super computer of today. In fact, wall paper will be so cheap, that when you
put up wall paper it will be intelligent. Wall paper will be as intelligent as your computer today. This
is your living room of the future. This is how you will communicate with people. Let's say you're on
a college campus.And let's say it's Friday night, and you do not have a date. We all know what you do,
you get stone drunk. In the future, you go up to the wall screen and you say "Mirror, mirror on the wall,
who's available tonight?" the wall screen will then contact all the other wall screens out there. The
wall screen will say exactly the kind of person you're like, visual characteristics, age, whatever and
hook you up to whoever else is looking at their magic mirror and saying "Mirror, mirror on the wall."
Then you'll go out and have some fun, come back to your apartment, and then you want to see a movie.
the future. First of all let me say that if you get cable television, you get the science channel. On
the science channel starting December 1st as it was mentioned my book physics of the impossible is going
to be appearing as a weekly tv series that I will be hosting. Watch for it December 1st and every week
after that. They call is Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible. So let's talk about that. First of
all how do we scientists know what is going to happen 10, 20 years in the future. What's going to happen.
How can we be so confident. Well first of all this is Moore's Law. On a log chart you see that computer
powers every 18 months. Now what does that mean? This means that when you get a birthday card in the
mail, you open it up and there's a chip in it. And the chip sings "happy birthday to you" and that chip
has more computer power than all the allied forces of 1945. Hitler, Eisenhower, Church would have killed
to get that chip. Now what do you do with that chip?
You throw it away in the garbage. Or look at this chart, you'll see that way back in the 1960's NASA
had almost no computer power. Your cell phone today, one cell phone today has more computer power according t
to this chart than all of NASA when they put 2 men on the moon. Now this means that if cars obeyed Moore's
law, cars today would cost 10 cents. This means that when you parked the car, you wouldn't even bother to put a quarter in the meter because the meter costs more than the car.
So you would just park the car and move away from it. So what does this mean? This means that by 2020,
computer chips will cost about a penny. That is the cost of scrap paper. So we now know the future of
the computer. The future of the computer will be everywhere and nowhere. Hidden in the walls, hidden
in the fabric of our life. Just like electricity is, everywhere and nowhere. And this is the internet.
We wrote the world wide web, the world wide web was written by a physicist to keep track of subatomic
particles. And you can see here that the internet corresponds with prosperity. Where there is the internet,
there is prosperity, commerce, science, finance. Where there is no internet, there is poverty. So one t
thing that we physicists do is that we create something, and then we simply give it away for free. So
how will you communicate with the internet in the future. These are glasses that have full internet capability.
You can download any website, any movie, do e-mails from these things. And will also recognize faces.
How many times have you bumped into somebody on the street, and you say to yourself "who is this person?
Jim, John, Jake, no i know this person!" In the future, your glasses will say, "It's Jim stupid. Remember.
You met him last week. Do you want to see his entire biography for you in your glasses?" And let's say
you're at a cocktail party, you're looking for a job and you don't know who the heavy hitters are. In t
he future, you will know exactly who to suck up to at a cocktail party. Well let's say you don't want
to look like a refugee from Star Trek. In the future, glasses will be fashionable. With full internet
capability. They can be flashed directly into the retina of your eye, they can be flashed right onto t
he screen of your glasses, or used like a jewelers lens as an attachment to your glasses. Fashion models
will be wearing these things, young people will demand to have full internet capability, any video, any
movie, any website, any music downloaded via your glasses. Now you say to yourself, wait a minute, maybe i don't wear glasses.
No problem, in the future, they will be in your contact lenses. These are internet contact lenses that
we physicists are trying to build. Imagine taking a final examination. HAH! Immediately the light bulbs
begin to flash, right? Think of taking a final examination, you realize that in the future professors
are going to have to throw out their final exam because you can't simply record memorization on a final
exam anymore. You'll have to covey concepts, principles, rather than memorizing the names of the crystals
or the shapes of the minerals or whatever. Imagine full internet capability in your glasses. Well we
physicists are working on this even as we speak. Imagine, for example, going to a foreign country. You
bump into someone and they start to talk to you in a foreign language. In the future you will see subtitles.
Subtitles of a foreign language in your contact lens. And lets say you visit the ruins of Rome. It;s
such a big disappointment. You read about the great Roman Empire, and then you see all that's left. Almost
nothing left of the empire. You go to the Roman Forum and you only use imagination thinking of Julius
Caesar and Mark Antony, no problem. Your contact lens will recreate the full animation of the height
of the Roman Empire as you walk through the ruins. This is called augmented reality, not virtual reality.
A mixture of reality with animation, with subtitles, with translations. Let's say you're driving a car,
your contact lens will give you exactly how fast you're moving, how much gas you have, and will even
point out land marks as you're driving. GPS, all of that without having to leave the steering wheel of
your car. This is what happens with Moore's Law. A computer chip will cost a penny, like electricity,
they'll be everywhere, and nowhere. When you walk into a room today, what do you do? You look for the
light switch, right? The first thing you do is look for the light switch. You assume the walls have electricity,
even though it's invisible. In the future, when you walk into the room, the first thing you will do is
look for the internet portal. You will assume the room is intelligent. So this is your cell phone of
the future. This is how you will communicate with others. One screen for any video, one screen for any
website, one screen for any movie that's ever been done. You'll access the entire database of the planet
almost for free. And let's say you have a blackberry. You know how tiny that blackberry's keypad is.
Well, in the future, we'll have E-Paper. You'll simply scroll out paper which is intelligent and you'll
type on that piece of paper. So your cell phone is an entire PC. In fact, it has more power than a super
computer of today. In fact, wall paper will be so cheap, that when you put up wall paper, it'll be intelligent.
Wall paper will be as intelligent as your computer today. This is your living room of the future. This
is how you will communicate with people. Let's say you're on a college campus, and let's say it's friday
night and you do not have a date. We all know what you do, you get stone drunk. In the future, you go
up to the wall screen and you'll say "mirror mirror on the wall, who's available tonight. The wall screen will
then contact all the other wall screens out there. The wall screen will say exactly the kind of person
you're like, physical characteristics, age, whatever and hook you up with whoever else is looking at
their magic mirror and saying "mirror mirror on the wall." Then you'll go out and have some fun, and
come back to your apartment, and then you want to see a movie. So you'll say to the wall screen "mirror
mirror on the wall, we want to see Casa Blanca except remove Humphrey Bogart's face and put my face instead. And remove Ingrid Bergman's face and put my date's face instead.
Now some people are a little bit afraid of this, but realize that when the internet was first created
by we physicists, it was male, it was hierarchical, it was to dominate over the Soviet Union. Why did
the Pentagon give us millions of dollars to create the internet? It wasn't so that you could e-mail your
friends. That's not why we physicists invented the internet, it was created to dominate a nuclear war
with Russia so we can communicate and rebuild America after New York City is in ruins, Los Angeles,
Chicago are vaporized, that's how we're going to recreate America after World War 3. Today, the internet
is female. 51% of the users of the internet are women and they use it to touch people. That's what it's
all about. Technology looks frightening when you don't know it. But then you realize the whole purpose
of the technology is to be female, to touch people, make contact with people. So the internet has flipped
from being a war fighting device to being a device that allows you to communicate to all your friends.
That dog for example, on the left, doesn't really exist. It babysits your kids, runs, barks. That dog
does everything except pee on your carpet. Let's say it's thanksgiving time and you're lonely because
one son is in Australia, another one is in Russia, another one's on the South Pole. No problem, you all
gather around your wall screens, you'll put on your contact lenses, and you will see everybody sitting
around the dinner table as you carve up the turkey in cyber space. Also, we're putting chips everywhere.
Chips are going into toys now, toys are becoming intelligent. This is causing a problem for the English
language. Contradiction in terms called Smart Barbie Dolls. Another contradiction in terms is Microsoft
Works. That is also a contradiction in terms. So again, any technology looks frightening when you first s
ee it and then you realize "Hey, the whole purpose of this technology is to touch someone, to reach out
and to touch people." This is your office of the future. Today of course your office is built around
the PC, but why should that be? The PC of the future will disappear. The future of the computer is to
disappear. Electricity has disappeared. We no longer see electricity. Intelligence will also disappear
into the fabric of our lives. These are scrap computers. This is your office of the future. You will
scribble on a sheet that has full word processing capability, paint capability, and then you'll throw
it away. And as you go from room to room, your files move with you. Your files are more important than
the computer. The computer only costs a few pennies after all. In fact, when you go shopping, today you
have a barcode whenever you buy something, In the future, instead of having a barcode, you'll have a
chip. The chip will cost less than the barcode of the future. And this is how you will move from office
to car, car to home, home to office. A software follows you seamlessly everywhere you go. This is your
cubicle of the future. This is how you will operate. And like i said if you don't like to be in a cubicle,
you can just talk to the wallpaper, the wallpaper is fully intelligent with a screen, what have you.
This is the car of the future. I had a chance to drive this car. This car has no driver. It is a driverless
car. These cars have now driven hundreds of miles in the mojave desert without a driver. GPS is the secret
to allow this car to drive. And for the Discovery channel they put me in the drivers seat, i started
to drive the car, and then i went like this. Try to drive like this some time. This means that traffic
accidents could disappear from the English language. Traffic jams, traffic accidents could disappear
as the cars literally drive themselves. And lets talk about health. Health is going to be turned upside
down. First of all, when you go to the doctor, your doctor will be in your toilet. You'll go to the doctor
3 times a day.The doctor will analyze your body fluids and it will tell you that you eat too much. Too
much animal fat, too much salt, so much sugar in your diet. Isn't the future wonderful? Even the toilet
will tell you that you have an unhealthy diet. Well ladies and gentlemen, this could be the cure for
cancer. Because today if you feel something in your breasts, it is too late. It's really too late. You
have 10 billion cancer cells growing inside your breast, surgery is required almost immediately. In the
future, when you go to the toilet, your toilet will analyze proteins, proteins emitted from cancer colonies of maybe a hundred cancer cells. Not ten billion, but a hundred.
And tell you, oh by the way, you'll have breast cancer in 10 years. Watch out, but no rush. And there'll
be chips scattered through your bathroom which will analyze DNA. How do i know this? Because my friends
are building these chips. They're called DNA chips. Chips that allow you to scan DNA within a matter
of minutes. So even as you're going to the bathroom, combing your hair, what have you, your bathroom
is giving you a complete medical examination. And we now know that DNA is computer tape, instead of "zeros
and ones", "zeros and ones", "zeros and ones", we have "A, T, C, G", "A, T, C, G." And we can read computer
tape just like we read DNA. So how will we do it? Every time you blow on a glass, you blow on a glass
you leave DNA there, it will sample the DNA and scan for all of your genes. I had my genome scanned, m
ost of my genes have been scanned, put on a CD rom, which i then showed to the camera. Realize that you
will have this very soon. To have all your genes read today cost 50,000 dollars. Within a few years,
it'll be down to 1,000 dollars, and perhaps in 10 years it'll be 100 bucks. This is your owner's manual.
In your home you have an owner's manual for your VCR, your iPod, your computer, your TV set. You have
an owners manual for everything, except one thing, your body. This will be your owner's manual. In fact,
when they scanned my DNA, they even told me where my ancestors came from 20,000 years ago. So i now know
my family lineage up to 20,000 years. So what will it be like to go to the doctors office? We will not o
nly scan your DNA, if we find something wrong with an organ, we will replace it and grow another one.
This is an ear, except it's made out of plastic. Plastic sponge that dissolves with time. We take some
cells from your ears, seed it into this ear, and it grows. It grows leaving a perfect ear. Then the plastic
dissolves with time, because it is biodegradable. Here is bone on the left, ears on the right. Today
we can grow bone, blood, skin, cartilage, we can grow noses, ears, blood vessels, heart valves. The first
bladder was grown three years ago. The first wind pipe was grown a few months ago. And we will grow the
first liver, perhaps in five more years. So for you alcoholics in the audience, there is hope. If you
can hold on for five more years, you may be able to have your own liver. So let's now have the first
DVD where we're now going to go into the hospital of the future. What it will be like if we can grow
organs by seeding it with cells. What it will be like if surgery is done in three dimension. So let's
have the first video from the discovery channel, a program that i hosted called "2057." 50 years from
now. So as computer power doubles every 18 months, it means that every aspect of our life, finance, commerce,
health, is going to be turned upside down as we begin to realize that computer power can enrich our lives.
This is the world's first bladder. A human bladder that was grown from a young girls own cells that was
implanted into that young woman. That was 3 years ago. A development at Wakeforest University where
we taped, changed history. And within 5 years, we hope to have the first pancreas, liver, perhaps even t
he first kidney. These are the frontier organs that are now being looked at to be grown in the laboratory.
The first windpipe was grown just 3 months ago, and in mice, we actually grew an entire heart. An entire
mouse heart was grown just last year. And how is that possible? Because computer power means that we
can sequence genes, we can put doctors in touch with each other, it has accelerated medical advances.
And now let me say a few things about artificial intelligence. We will one day have robots. The robots
that we see in science fiction. Well, this is Asimo. Asimo is the world's most advanced robot. Asimo
can run, walk, climb up stairs, and dance. In fact, Asimo can dance better than me. I had a chance to
meet Asimo, and the question is how smart is our most advanced robot? And can these robots even have
emotions so that we can bond with them? Let's have now the second video where we will now go to Tokyo.
We will meet the worlds most advanced robot, and the question is will they one day become smarter than
us? Will one day they put us in zoo's and throw peanuts at us and make us dance behind bars?
Well first of all, here's the governor of California in a very bad mood. So will we one day have to deal
with mad governors? Well, lets take a look at Asimo. You saw Asimo, the worlds most advanced robot. How
smart is Asimo? Well let me tell you, Asimo is as smart as a cockroach. A retarded cockroach. A stupid
lobotomized retarded cockroach. Asimo takes about 6 hours to walk across the room. Every moment pre-programmed.
That scene that you saw took 3 hours for us to program every single move of that robot. So why is Japan
spending so much time on these robots? Well, let me tell you a secret. Japan's population is the fastest
aging population on earth. They have very few young people, they have a lot of old people. These are
future robot nurses. That's why Japan is spending so much money building robots. That's the future of
nursing. Not the future of human intelligence. However, in the coming decades as robots get smarter,
perhaps they'll be as smart as a mouse. Eventually as smart as a dog or a cat. And in that case, after
that maybe as smart as a monkey. At that point, i think we should put a chip in their brain to shut them
off if they start to get murderous thoughts. But that's not for a while. That is decades into the future.
We'll have plenty of warning. And in fact, for the science channel special that i'm hosting on December
1st, we went to all the worlds leading artificial intelligence laboratories and you can see how primitive
our robots really are. Well let's say a few more things that we discussed in the science channel documentary.
Invisibility, believe it or not, we physicists believe that invisibility is possible. We flew down to
Duke University and we filmed the world's first microwave invisibility device. It'll make an object
invisible, the microwaves. We went to Berkley where they can actually do it for visible light. But there
is a problem, if you're inside in invisibility cloak, you cannot see outside, it's only a one way trip.
Therefore, if you are inside the invisibility cloak, you need to punch 2 eyeballs so you can see outside.
So from the outside, you see 2 floating eyeballs. Or here, a floating head. So remember that (metta materials?)
allows us to bend microwave radiations around an object, just like water flows around a boulder. If you
were downstream from a boulder, you don't know that there is a boulder upstream. That works for microwaves, a
nd at Berkley and Kel-tec, on a microscopic scale, they showed that it works for visible light as well.
So this means that in the coming years, coming decades, we may be able to attain full invisibility. Just
like you see in the movies, but we don't have it yet. Also, teleportation. Wouldn't it be great to simply
zap yourself across the room? Just like they do in Star Trek. Well this is called Quantum Teleportation.
And for the science channel television series we went down to Maryland, to the University of Maryland
where we actually photographed with a TV camera, actually photographed an atom being zapped across the
room. A TV screen lit up every time an atom was teleported from one chamber to the next chamber. Now
this of course leads to problems, because if you're Captain Kirk, you have to die, you have to dissolve
in the process of creating a copy of Captain Kirk over there. So who is that impostor over there? That
impostor over there looks like Captain Kirk, he sells Price line just like Captain Kirk, Okay, so who
is that person over there? You just saw him die, and there he is selling Price line over there. It really
makes you wonder who are we? Are we just information? That information can be zapped from one place to
another? And believe it or not, telepathy is coming faster than you think. We taped this again for the
science channel special, 12 episodes, 30 minutes a piece, starting December 1st. Here's how it works.
This is Brown University where we have a stroke victim on the lower right. He is paralyzed. He cannot
move, he cannot communicate with his loved ones. He is a quadriplegic stroke victim. On the upper left
is a chip. They put the chip in his brain shown on the lower left, you can see the dot where the chip
is placed. You hook up that chip to a lap top. That person who is now totally paralyzed, can now read
emails, surf the web, answer emails, do crossword puzzles, do everything you can do on a computer, except
this person happens to be paralyzed. This means that in the future you may simply want to communicate
with the web by thinking about it. We can also use this technology, by the way, he's allowed to see the
lap top, you see the connection on the right, an electrode that connects to a lap top computer, the worlds
first direct link between the human mind and a computer. And also in Japan, they have very tediously
mapped images of the brain onto an MRI scan and had a computer recognize them. We can actually see the
outlines now, the decoded outlines of an object that you are looking at with your eyeballs. This means
that when you are asleep and are dreaming, we may be able to photograph some of the dreams that you have.
This has already been done at Kyoto University, not with dreams, but with a person looking at an object,
a computer decodes the images on the MRI scan, we can now recognize, the first thing that was done was
a horse shoe, you can actually see the horseshoe that the person is looking at via an MRI scan. But in
the article it says that the next target is dreams. Maybe one day we'll be able to record your dreams.
This is what it looks like, you have to put this thing on top of your head. But in the future, it may
be invisible. It may be painless and invisible and you be able to surf the web all by yourself. Also,
we should also point out that we can also use this for a lie detector test. When you tell a lie, your
brain scan lights up like a christmas tree. That is because first you have to know the truth. Second,
you have to create the lie, third you have to create the cover up of the lie, and fourth you have to
analyze the consistency of the cover up of all the other lies you'd been telling all these years. That's
a lot of brain power. And you can actually see that on an MRI scan. Now let me say a few things about
the far future. So far everything i've talked about is the near future. We're talking about 10, 20, 50
years in the future. Now let's look even farther. We went to NASA and we visited the scientists who dream
one day of building a star ship. This of course is far beyond anything we can muster with todays technology.
However, we actually interviewed scientists who believed that it may be possible to bend the fabric of
space and time so that we can actually leap forwards across enormous differences. Perhaps using Einstein's
theory. This is a black hole. Black holes are not science fiction any more, we photographed the accretion
discs of black holes. This black hole lies at the center of a gigantic galaxy, NGC4258. That dot, that
dot you see at the very center is about one light year across. In the inside of the dot is a raging black
hole, in fact if you want to see a black hole tonight, go outside look in the direction of saggitarious
that is the center of the milky way galaxy. There's a black hole there which, in some sense, lies at
the center of our galaxy. Kids ask the question, if the moon goes around the earth, the earth goes around the sun,
what does the sun go around? Well we know the answer to that. The sun goes around the black hole in the
constellation Sagittarius at the center of the milky way galaxy. Now if you look at that black hole,
it's rather disappointing. Dust clouds obscure the galactic nuclei. If you could somehow remove the dust
clouds, then you would see a fire ball. A fire ball rise every night, perhaps rivaling the moon in brightness
with a raging black hole at the center. Unfortunately, dust clouds prevent us from seeing this huge fire