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. >> next on booktv, michio kaku talks about the latest advances in brain science. he says that our understanding of the to brain and technological advancements make it possible to now record our memories and dreams, communicate telepathically and control robots with our minds. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> well, after such a great introduction, i can't wait to hear this speaker myself. [laughter] sometimes all these introductions can backfire. recently, new york magazine voted me as one of the 100 smartest people in new york city. [laughter] i thought, wow, what an honor. but this all fairness, in all fairness i have to admit that madonna also made that same list. [laughter] and i understand that next year lady gaga is going to push me off the list entirely. [laughter] now, today i'm going to talk about the future, the future of the mind. and let me say that talking about the future is dangerous. let me quote from that great philosopher of the western world, yogi berra. [laughter] yogi berra once said, quote: prediction is awfully hard to do,

michio joins me now, aside from being a best selling author, he's a professor of theoretical physicsuniversity of new york and host of "sci-fi science" on the sci-fi channel. great to have you on. >> great to be on the show. >> you're a rock star, when you walk in, everyone wants to take a picture, but this takes it so next level for me in that when people ask what super power you would want if you were a super hero, they think telepathy or the ability to erase it all, and you're saying the near future of what we do with our brains and the next evolution of our brains could involve some of these things. >> that's right. think of telepathy, recording memories, uploading memories, photographing a dream. we've done it. we've done it in the laboratory already. and there's so much interest in this. >> when you say we've done it, explain that. >> we have hooked up the mind, the brain, to a computer. the computer then deciphers the impulses in our brain and we can type, we can then begin to operate household appliances, laptop computers, we can send messages and we can even record memories

next, michio kaku talks about his look, "the future of the mind: the scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind". [applause] >> this is such a great introduction. sometimes, all of these introductions can backfire. recently new york magazine voted me as one of the 100 smartest people in new york city. and i thought, what an honor. but in all fairness i have to admit that madonna also made that same list. let me talk about yogi berra. he once said prediction is awfully hard to do, especially if it's about the future. well, i am a physicist and so let me quote from that other great philosopher. woody allen once said that paternity is an awful long time especially towards the end. and you may think what is a business know about the mind. what does he know about daily life? well, we are the ones who invented the transistor and we helped to assemble the first computer and the internet and we wrote the worldwide web. so along the way we reinvented television. we invented x-ray machines and we created and we physicists love to make predictions. we helped assemble the inte

coming up you guys are here from theoretical physicist and genius michio kaku on the future of the mind. joining me. in our cold and financial report terry contribute and much much. only on bass and only on. over the past few decades tremendous advancements have been made in the field of neuroscience from mapping the human brain to creating devices that can capture digital images of our thoughts but what if we can upload a digital copy of our memories and consciousness to a point that human beings can actually achieve a sort of digital immortality this idea is inspired many science fiction movies including the upcoming film transcendence where one man's mind is uploaded into a supercomputer which possesses the collective knowledge of all humanity while the film is fiction the concept behind it is very real so the subject of a new book called future of the mind which is currently number one in the new york times bestseller of us the author is a renowned theoretical physicist michio kaku earlier today breaking a separate caught up with dr kaku and first asked him how far we really are fro

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[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> next on boutique on key the michio kaku tags abut the least of these brave sides. he says their understanding of the greater technological advancements make it possible to record memories and dreams come to indicate telepathically in control robots with our minds. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> well, after such a great introduction, i can't wait to hear the speaker myself. sometimes so these introductions can backfire. recently, new york magazine voted me as one of the 100 smartest people in new york city. i thought wow, what an honor. but in all fairness, i have to admit that madonna also made that same list. [laughter] i understand that next year baby gaga is going to push me off the list entirely. now today i'm going to talk about the future, the future -- "the future of the mind" and they say that talking about the future is dangerous. let me quote from the great philosopher of the western world, yuki berra. yogi berra once said prediction is often hard to do, especially if it about the future. well, i'm a physicist. we c

and then the future of the mind by michio kaku. wednesday, a conversation with with hillary clinton from the fifth annual women of the world summit. here is a l fifth annual women of the world summit. here is a look. >> we need to produce conclusive prosperity. i am grateful for everything that i was given as a child to prepare me to have a fascinating life, obviously. but i don't want to see other children denied that opportunity and it is an economic issue and a moral issue and political issue and i want to get back to evidence-based decision-making. there's too much that has gone on. [applause] too much has gone on in our politics that is just pure ideology and partisanship in the disguise of commercial interest behind the political faÇade and the result is that we are kind of marching backwards instead of forward. so from my perspective we often reach these points in american history where we are sort of trying to decide which way we are going, whether we should consolidate or embrace the future, how we go about doing it. i thi

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michio kaku is the author of "the future of the mind." how concerned should we be?hing after all. meteorites are three times more common than thought. a city buster that could take out new york city could hit every 30 years. remember, we had the meteor that sailed over russia? what was astonishing is it was only 60 feet across. we had underestimated a whole class of small meteors less than 100 feet across. >> who is the we that underestimated it and why did that happen? >> we have limited information. we have no space telescope out there dedicated to launching on to it. we can see asteroids 150 feet across. this is 60 feet across that forced us to have a wake-up call to recalibrate the probability of a meteor impact. >> how powerful do you think an impact could be? >> in 1908, we had the mother of all city busters hit russia. the force of 1000 hiroshima bombs. it would have taken out all of new york city, most of westchester, stanford, connecticut and jersey city. it would have been horrendous if it hit the metropolitan area. but it hit siberia. >> what can you do?

and michio kaku discusses the future of the mind, the scientific quest to understand, enhance and empower the mind. booktv all this week in prime time here on c-span2. over on our companion network, c-span, each day this week we're presenting five of the supreme court's notable oral arguments so far this session. on april 2nd the court struck down limits on the total amount of money an individual can contribute in federal elections, ruling that such of limits violate the first amendment. today at 7 eastern on c-span, hear the arguments in the case of mccutcheon v. fec. after that journalist casey sherman and dave wedge mark the one-year anniversary of the boston marathon bombings with personal stories from those in boston that day. they're the authors of an upcoming book called "boston strong." watch the event tonight at 8 eastern on c-span. meanwhile, members of congress are back in their home districts for a two week holiday recess, and a number of them have been tweeting out their thoughts on today's bombing anniversary. massachusetts congressman stephen lynch says: >> there's an old s