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How today's technologies will shape the world in 2100

By Amanda Gefter

16 March 2011

THE ever-enthused physicist and science writer Michio Kaku has taken on a bold task: to predict how technology will shape the world in the next 100 years.

Kaku acknowledges that prediction is no easy task, and that most who have peered into the same crystal ball have failed to accurately foresee the future. But their mistake, he says, was to set their sights too low. So Kaku is harnessing all of his optimism to find out what life on Earth will really be like in 2100.

As computers become ubiquitous, he says, we will be able to move objects with…

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