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What we've discovered doing this series is that while not every futurist is optimistic, most of the fun ones are. Michio Kaku, a physicist who discusses what will replace silicon chips in powering computers (try DNA), can't wait for the day when "objects will be animate and intelligent, and they'll talk to us. It'll be like a Disney movie. Our grandchildren will be incredulous that we lived way back when things didn't answer when you spoke to them...
...Giving Kaku a run in the enthusiasm sweepstakes is Nicholas Negroponte, director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, who predicts a ubiquitous computing world sooner rather than later, a world in which refrigerators will know when your milk has gone bad and will order a fresh bottle. Novelist William Gibson, who coined the word cyberspace, even imagines a world in which your fridge (and your car and your toothbrush...) will be as smart...
...Killing Time, which we commissioned for the series and which will be published in full later this year by Random House. Though the adventures of Dr. Gideon Wolfe will be expanded in the book, readers have got enough of a taste to know Carr is not quite the optimist Kaku is. "I don't mean to say these things will happen, since things can go any one of 10 ways in the future," says Carr. "But I do worry if all these technologies are allowed to run wild." That said, Carr is a lot of fun to work with, thus...
...Michio Kaku is a physics professor at City College of New York and author of Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century