About this episode
Dr. Michio Kaku explores revolutionary technologies emerging in the 21st century, predicting computer chips will cost one penny by 2020, enabling ubiquitous computing embedded in clothing, glasses, and walls. He describes stage three computing where one human interfaces with one million chips distributed throughout the environment. Kaku envisions glasses providing heads-up displays for facial recognition, teleconferencing, and downloading movies, while intelligent toilets monitor health by analyzing bodily fluids and warning of cancer cells a decade before tumors form. The discussion covers the AOL-Time Warner merger as validation of physicist predictions, Moore's Law projecting computational power doubling every 18 months, and Internet access through watches and wearable devices. Kaku addresses privacy concerns, emergency response capabilities enabled by intelligent clothing, and how ubiquitous sensors will transform daily life, mixing convenience with surveillance in ways both beneficial and unsettling.