The Future of the Mind

Direct mental communication with computers, telekinesis, implantation of new skills directly into the brain, video recording of images, memories, and dreams, telepathy, avatars and surrogates as assistants to humanity, exoskeletons controlled by thought, and artificial intelligence. This is all our near future. In the coming decades, we will learn to enhance our intellect using gene therapy, drugs, and magnetic devices. Science in this field is developing rapidly. The nature of work and communication on social networks, the learning process, and overall human development will change. Many incurable diseases will be overcome, and we will become different. Is our mind ready for the future? What awaits it there? On these questions, based on the latest research in neurobiology and physics, answers Michio Kaku, a futurist, science popularizer, and author of popular science bestsellers.