The Future of the Mind

Outline

The Future of the Mind (2014) explores how science may soon understand and enhance the human brain. Michio Kaku describes real research on recording memories, controlling machines with thoughts, reading brain signals, and boosting intelligence, and considers what these advances could mean for society. Written in an accessible and exciting style, the book brings neuroscience and physics together to imagine the future of the mind.

• Science is moving toward understanding the human brain well enough to enhance its abilities, not just describe how it works.
• Researchers are already working on recording memories, which points toward a future where memories could be stored or transferred.
• Brain-computer interfaces let people control machines with their thoughts by reading signals from the brain.
• The book describes real research on boosting intelligence and considers how such advances could change society.
• Michio Kaku combines neuroscience and physics to imagine how the human mind may develop in the years ahead.

Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, professor at the City College of New York, and one of the world’s best-known popularisers of science. He is a co-founder of string field theory and a frequent guest on television and radio. His bestselling books include Hyperspace, Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future, and The Future of the Mind.