The Future of Humanity: Colonizing Mars, Traveling to the Stars, and Achieving Immortality

Sooner or later, humanity will have to search for and colonize habitable worlds beyond Earth. Michio Kaku's book is one of the first attempts to create a 'road map' for the upcoming greatest resettlement in the history of humanity. The... author, a well-known science popularizer, examines the history of the issue, the technical aspects, and the options for future colonization of space, discussing problems that remain unsolved—from the colonization of Mars and the construction of refueling stations on Oort cloud comets to faster-than-light travel across the Galaxy, encounters with extraterrestrial intelligence, and achieving immortality as a condition for mastering the Universe. These ideas excite society, and they are embraced by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, and other captains of new technologies investing in solutions for the near and distant future. Undoubtedly, they can be seen as an integral part of modern worldview, to which Michio Kaku makes a valuable contribution.