Michio Kaku: 3 mind-blowing predictions about the future

What lies in store for humanity? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains how different life will be for your descendants-and maybe your future self, if the timing works out.
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Carl Sagan believed humanity needed to become a multi-planet species as an insurance policy against the next huge catastrophe on Earth. Now, Elon Musk is working to see that mission through, starting with a colony of a million humans on Mars. Where will our species go next?
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku looks decades into the future and makes three bold predictions about human space travel, the potential of 'brain net', and our coming victory over cancer.
"[I]n the future, the word 'tumor' will disappear from the English language," says Kaku. "We will have years of warning that there is a colony of cancer cells growing in our body. And our descendants will wonder: How could we fear cancer so much?"
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[@The-Well]

Do you agree with these predictions?

[@samd9592]

No not all views , but his points are well taken

[@samd9592]

Can't wait to see and use these new technological inventions and their offspring

[@karenpabon7460]

i think its true that its all im the dna

[@jJust_NO_]

so basically one cant hide anymore because its become telepathic. how scary that is if you have ill intents. i guess the feature to be bad technically will be gone. youd not know any 'wrong' so to speak. honestly im not so stoked with all these possibilities..i even cant comprehend them with my simple mind.

[@leahnore]

He knows his business. I believe he has it right

[@k.m890]

usually I don't click on advertisement but when you have the great professor I can't help myself but to click and also subscribe

[@JusNoBS420]

My first time as well lol

[@derpybattledroid57]

Same! 😋

[@tripjdirt]

I did the same thing

[@alejandroluna7624]

Yes I saw kaku n was hooked

[@flako08003]

I agree 👍

[@Dynamoe1836]

This world that he is describing sounds horrible. Completely taking away from the human experience. It’s not his fault, it’s probably going to happen. I just hope my kids get to live at least a part of the human experience that I enjoyed. Pretty sad if technology takes us in that direction but I will continue to enjoy my camping and fishing with my kids until that is no longer the norm. Our kids or their kids are gonna be living in a messed up reality.

[@jamie1453]

Yes Live for the now and hope future generations can handle what is about to happen. The closer you get to old age witnessing future predictions of what will happen makes you ponder your own existence. Noone knows.🙏

[@jimisalt]

Or just don’t have kids in a reality you deem so horrible as you are subjecting them to something they had no choice to consent to happening, this being life.

[@GabrielRodriguez-co1td]

Who is perceiving it as a messed up reality? This is all future generations will ever have known. In my opinion, I believe it is only interconnecting us further, and allowing for greater connection between people and understanding and empathy. You will be able to understand true intent by these technologies. I do understand your point of view though, but good thing you’ll be able to feel exactly what it was like in our time using this kind of technology.

[@albsol3478]

You are pathetic

[@mlimrx]

Omg Michio Kaku is really brilliant!!!! I love it!!!

[@Nancy-yf6mw]

No....he’s NOT.

[@drmichaelshea]

Honestly, I’d rather be dead. And it’s comforting to know that I almost certainly will be.

[@deippydeippy5249]

?

[@littlebirdie2]

👍🏻

[@andiestewart7423]

How amazing! Hopefully I’m still around to see it all

[@rossriver75yukon27]

Star Trek TV series in the 1960s ( and set in the “2100s”) said cancer gone, but still the common cold hanging around.

[@damien6502]

I love this wonderful check list of advanced achievements that are impeccable

[@gonefishing4604]

It's very good to hear that the rich will always walk and live forever with out cancer.

[@rocko100able]

Well you could also say that we're already a multi planet species, physically on Earth and spiritually in the spirit, I don't see how any of us here would it ever be part of a group that makes it to another planet, and then grows that planet, and whatever fashion is necessary that we would experience it and see that it ever came to pass, while we're alive.

[@PlanetEarth3141]

I've listened to Michio Kaku for many years, mostly to compare my knowledge to his, my predictions to his, I have also been aware of his humor. However, I've never seen it this displayed before. He doesn't make himself as available as he used to for interviews probably because he's getting a bit old and tired of that routine. But it seems to me he'd be a good stand up comedian.

[@The-Well]

Could definitely see that! The line between comedian and educator is increasingly blurred in this era of educational entertainment and diverse forms of media and performance.

[@robertstack2144]

We need a system to replenish our sun with energy. Greenhouse gases, CO² and their sources are definetly problems. Our ozone layer is gone. One solution to our problem would be getting rid of problematic matter by transferring it to the sun. Elon Musk now in in a position and has the political impetus to send Democrats to the Sun

[@JusNoBS420]

I would love to listen to a podcast from this brilliant man. It could even been older videos or speeches. Typically listen to these sorts of things before bed

[@SeattleShelby]

He’s Japanese. He’ll probably live to be 120. Plenty of time for more interviews.

[@bowshockgalaxy]

@@JusNoBS420 omg brown nosing much 😂 💩

[@6ez2bme9]

So michio what do you know about harrp? I thought you had said you couldn't control the weather. Everything's energy! Thank you ✝️ 💜

[@kensanity178]

I read your book, Kaku. Filled with fantasy, conjecture and scientific flights of fantasy. I love science. Especially when it's based on real evidence. Not fantasy and conjecture.

[@Matricula404]

I agree with you

[@liliboyle7642]

Damn I believe that video that’s supposedly us in the future. What our bodies have adapted into to sustain life. You don’t comprehend time..

[@HighSociety420]

I had no idea this is how Stephen Hawkings communicated I love science

[@GeorgieKeen]

Professor, what do we have to do to become a type 1 civilization?

[@jeremyh8446]

I say we figure out the cancer one first. Who’s with me?

[@The-Well]

Go for it! A lot of incredible work being done, but a lot more still needs to be.

[@jasonb.9167]

It's called Smartpipe

[@MS-bb3bj]

This so amazing how advance technology will become, as in everything , there will be a need to hide our emotions if everybody can access that can create a lot of problems, beside that all other is so so interesting

[@sandmtnirishred]

Didn't they fix the stuck drill of the Mars Rover by making it smack itself in it's "head" with it's shovel?

[@janetlynnpaschall3969]

Wow,😮🎉lazer energy?!!?Lost in Space for sure!The Jetsons!😮🙃😘👋

[@jenitzacrespo5993]

Gamma Ray: Dreamt, laser gum, in space, it was rotating, it stopped. I looked it was Earth. It was flat on a square black frame. It was impressive to see the Earth. So strong, that automatically I got awake or back to reality. (2019)

[@joeholzer1277]

1) The off-world ideas are mostly profit driven and will have to be replaced with lucrative schemes, ie: you're paid and provided for to create a better than earth off-world situation. 2) Communications will change with and after we iron out the mistakes in present examples and forms. While useful in some situations the machine part will be outdone by (r)evolution of love on a global level. 3) Progress on combating diseases will continue, so will our knowledge and utilisation of DNA. I'm missing a driving force for most progress here and that will be new ways of energy management, starting with batteries all up to fusion. And of course many things we haven't even begun to fathom yet.

[@The-Well]

Interesting! What do you mean by a revolution of love on a global level?

[@paulsmith9192]

The only problem is majority of us can't afford to go to mars or could make the trip.I mean that's why people have to go through tests before they can,travel. So,unless they come up with a,safer way to get us there easier, gonna be risky

[@euengelion]

we were those robots that helped someone mine something for them ages ago

[@janetlynnpaschall3969]

Amazed😮

[@HighSociety420]

I really do hope I get to live long enough to see these chips reach speed of light into other planets

[@JusNoBS420]

First time clicking on a (ad) video. Hope this helps

[@jerryfarthing7651]

here is a question a little off topic. what if the crop circles are realy a 2-d pictures of a 3d objects and beings from outerspace have been telling us things all along in a 2-d pictures of 3-d objects .

[@marinacapri4494]

Maybe we our species is already spread throughout the universe ! Maybe we were brought here to Earth from other life forms throughout the universe's but we are all different looking according to the environments and chemical make ups of other planets and somehow we are all all connected to the universe. There is so much life out there. Just something to think about thanks for listening.

[@The-Well]

Interesting thought! That sounds like the plot of a great science fiction series, to be honest - finding out that we were actually the remnants of a lost colony of interstellar travelers. At the very least it'd be one of the few sci-fi series to explain why all the alien actors looked suspiciously human 😉 Thanks for commenting!!

[@marinacapri4494]

Interesting statement!

[@jamie1453]

Just eternal questions and the answers to those questions which will forever shape the existence of humanity. Pretty scary 😨

[@squidfourswordstyle1046]

Self replicating robots sounds like every robot movie gone wrong.

[@The-Well]

To be fair, movies have predicted about 100 of the last 0 apocalypses :)

[@squidfourswordstyle1046]

@@The-Well yes and I forgot to add that self replicating robots is a horrible idea. It’s the best way to go extinct as humans.

[@j.lo.5784]

The new UFO phenomon might be similar to those 20% lightspeed post stamps. Those UFO must be mostly empty space with a very durable hull. Like a round solar sail they will use incoming energy to stear their way.

[@littlebirdie2]

I certainly wish my life long friend who was a paraplegic for 51 yr.s could hv had a chip to relay thought to her computer! That wd Hv been amazing for her.

[@ACryin_Shame]

And just like that, all respect gone.

[@miguelchavez4536]

I wouldn't mind volunteering for a space voyage that when we came back a million years have passed and we only aged 10 years.

[@damien6502]

Extraterrestrial Photon Field Conciscioussnes Projection ideology was a foresight that's impressive no doubt

[@ulfeliasson5413]

Theralase Technologies has the supreme treatment for C. Incredible tech. Just give it time.

[@debraal-shalabi1362]

Part 2: would immediately take it over, then the nightmares begin!

[@jamie1453]

I am thankful for this professor's knowledge. And it is so interesting I'm terrified of the future. Honestly, who can understand what the destiny of humanity is? I will always live in a state of conscience- unconcscienceness until I'm granted the gift of not being alive. Take solace in God and just take me away and give me the peace of have enjoyed the Era in which I have lived and experienced. Save the future for the next generations.

[@christopherreed2694]

What will quantum computing 🖥 come as well ?

[@jonnytheboy7338]

I would go to Mars in a heartbeat, but I doubt they would take a 60-year old broken-down lineman. Alas, I'm stuck on this hellhole

[@littlebirdie2]

Don’t worry… an astroid strike is due any day… or night.

[@asmith2490]

I'm curious, what's the difference if you die on Mars or here?

[@rayfinkle7064]

All I know is when this man Brian cox and tyson talks I listen

[@thetavibes9021]

Good boy. The laces were in.

[@squidfourswordstyle1046]

Yes but if you have those contact lenses. There will other tech to block that scan.

[@bingefox4056]

In the 80s the rage was future speculation and huge leaps forward. All we have to show for it is Flat screen TVs, and Smartphones. Oh and electric cars eventhough the we had electric cars 100 years ago

[@pmarie2003]

I find it confusing that anyone would want to continue the human species anywhere. Imagine being stuck on Mars with a million copies of the people that you work with. Nope.

[@mbennett7]

Colonize mars…could you imagine the wars between planets. We fight over oil and imaginary lines now lol

[@snappatruce]

Mars isn’t something that can be colonized. Get a grip.

[@ingemar_von_zweigbergk]

if self replicating nano bots build swarms of small spaceships that could evacuate all humans from earth into gigantic spaceships built by self replicating nano bots, how much time would that take?

[@The-Well]

Still too early to tell, for better or worse :). Interesting question, though. Wonder how many roles nanobots could potentially take: for example, would they mine or make the raw materials for the spacecraft or would that still be a more traditional human endeavor?

[@randomanon7040]

9:00 Lot's of drunk people are going to wake up to a hang over, a pink slip and a law suite in the future. Some thoughts should die in our minds, lol.

[@Tarik_bnc]

As a 86' born,who is interested in (first of all my self being) religions, physics,biology,algebra, geometry,(para)psychology... What he says sounds like that we're gonna be the witnesses of the world's "hard reset". Shame on us

[@anthonyruffini6730]

Imagine getting up to do your morning business before work and your smart toilet tells you that you got cancer. 🌅

[@janaenae1338]

Yer Killin me!

[@anthonyruffini6730]

Or smart toilet says you're killing yer self after a night of binge drinking. Talk about making you feel like shit. 💩

[@paulsmith9192]

@anthony ruffini actually it would tell u,ur about to get cancer before it happens, so u can easily treat it

[@carolisme1]

Wonderful! 11:49 14:51

[@denicealdenr.santos673]

Hopefully our technology development is fast enough to get these prediction before the earth got hit by the next meteor.

[@malayangrago5628]

The reality of human future is awesome.

[@freiheithoechstesgut4043]

Well, Mr. Kaku we know your agenda. Real humans with enough 'I' consciousness and awareness of who they are will be in no need of this technology. Space travel 'yes' but not through digitization of the human body. On your time line 'yes' you will get followers but that time line will self destruct.

[@wellbeing4914]

Frankly I feel sorry for the earth like planet of the Proxima Centauri. We are really not into building things, rather we destroy what nature creates.

[@SunnyDayTeaFactory]

Printing press was a big deal too Doctor.

[@paulsmith9192]

So pretty much its total recall mixed with the matrix

[@JesseCohoon]

I remember watching a movie where the toilet was supposed to be keeping track of a person's health and they had to dump old urine into the bowl so that it wouldn't detect that the person was drinking. It ended up where the guy had to get surgery, and if the intelligent toilet had detected alcohol, he would have been denied by his insurance. Big brother is watching you even as you s#!t

[@liltony2x823]

Bro😭😭

[@ceciliasanchez9500]

We're just data on the chart

[@ChargeCity]

Anyone asking if this is a good thing?

[@vp3579]

i think humanity will go out with out bang😅😅

[@jasonb.9167]

The toilet/cancer thing is called Smartpipe. You're welcome.

[@The-Well]

A great explainer video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/envOnXutpL6aeLM

[@lequitahartfield2886]

Give Ai your thoughts and Ai will do your thinking for you to the point you can no longer think for yourself .

[@The-Well]

Interesting. If we could create a digital version of our intelligence that worked faster than our own mind--as some people are working towards--it's interesting to think if we would feel helpless. Or it might change what we felt the meaning of our life was.

[@christopherreed2694]

Film is art same as books writing is art thats like saying everyone can be joe satriani with too guitar lessons remember frank zappa came out the same time as the Beatles art is the 🧠 brain and sole no computer will ever have a sole .

[@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster]

We need to colonize Mars now. We have the technology today. We could of colonized Mars at the end of the 1980s had We started in the mid 1970s like we were talking about back then. Today we are lead by people who can't even make new laws to help our own people.

[@goblins2k5]

I think people will be using robots to mine and terraform Mars for hundreds of years before they'd be able to colonize in any meaningful way.

[@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster]

@@goblins2k5 I watched an old National Archives video from the late 1960s and in it they were talking about maned missions to Mars by 1980. Our leaders don't care about exploration of Mars. By now we'd have started moving out into the Solar System and it's not just us. I'm surprised the Chinese or Russians haven't already landed people on Mars or the Moon.

[@thetavibes9021]

Who the fuck wants to be *lead* ?

[@danielrosas5685]

To have a peaceful earth 1);You have to send all the dictators out space 2) Also send out every one in jails that had done crimes 3) Send all kings and their concubines Consort also. 4) Send all The politicians. Then you can have a blissful Earth .

[@The-Well]

Let's get cracking!

[@ingridhohmann3523]

Going to Mars or somewhere else is.a way to put humans out of harms way in.case of a.catastrophic event,...hopefully humans don't destroy themselves before we reach Mars

[@thetavibes9021]

Or it's where selected few go to wait while launching a catastrophe on earth, to later go back and colonize all over again.

[@ingridhohmann3523]

@@thetavibes9021 scary vision

[@maryanngarcia3080]

They will

[@ingridhohmann3523]

@@maryanngarcia3080 hope you're not right on this one 😳 😉

[@erlkonigschubert]

Thats because he has "diagramme" just like how jayabaya and mayan race predicts future

[@jarrodyuki7081]

no erasing human memories no neuralink. and no multiverse.

[@federicozimerman8167]

Year 2023, about 25% of the 21st century is gone and what are the great achievements in space exploration?

[@The-Well]

Reusable launch vehicles, landing on comets and redirecting asteroids come to mind!

[@federicozimerman8167]

@@The-Well went to mars in 1965🤣

[@federicozimerman8167]

@@The-Well nothing accomplished yet, but yes, you are right: we have lots on fun toys🙂

[@arajoaina]

Life itself is the ultimate form of movie.

[@erinkelley1943]

As are the dreams of an unconscious mind.

[@kaisarion6668]

I don't disagree that humanity should become a multi planetary species, but we need to save our own first.

[@thetavibes9021]

"I need a new house..." "No... You need to fix the one you own, currently."

[@nn-db4fw]

I jumped in my chair the moment he said "global warming". Wtf...

[@littlebirdie2]

I love the conclusion that the destiny for humanity is outer space, because Mother Nature has a death warrant out for us. Good a reason as any… (Always LOVE his humor!)

[@alg1335]

If our death warrant doesn’t kill her first🤨

[@christopherreed2694]

I love that guy tho he's cool 😎

[@jesseperez1869]

What do you mean our future there about to be a nuclear catastrophe

[@HominidPetro]

@10:35 Dude acts like he's never seen a movie that has made him feel an emotion. Why the f would we need emotions downloaded into our brains from a movie? We already have emotions!

[@janaenae1338]

I just LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU !!

[@littlebirdie2]

He is cute, isn’t he?

[@Joemammaonmytip]

Hamans are self replicating robots we are so advanced we think for our selfs.

[@erasmus9732]

My three predictions 1) we all die. 2) we all live. 3) God loves you. Life is eternal. So what does it really matter.

[@chrisa8863]

Get ready for Elysium

[@GATURKS]

🥰 KZbinr GATURKS says: we are living in the fastest explosion of advancement in human History! What a time to be alive!

[@markschuette3770]

we need to stay here on the earth and fix the problems!!! and this by itselt will take all the money and brain power we have.

[@The-Well]

Thanks for raising an important argument. How do we justify spending billions on space travel when we still have problems on Earth? On the other hand--are the barriers to solving those problems (e.g. war, poverty) really that we spend a small percentage of our budget on space exploration? If we disbanded NASA, for example, would they be meaningfully improved? They're good - and tough - questions!

[@markschuette3770]

@@The-Well i think we should keep NASA but for a while shift their priorities to these major issues thretening all of life on teh earth- including environmental issues- but they can still watch over the heavens so we can protect oursesves again issues coming out way from up there. we and many species are in trouble here and now!

[@derekseube7039]

Just building another tower of Babel. Good luck

[@varietyvidssentertainment]

We are still in 2022, but we already can’t wait for 2023 to arrive. But what are some predictions we need to learn next year? 👉kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqapeXuqr9h3l7c

[@rashadabdelrahman6555]

There is no place like Earth

[@brunolerman2108]

He talks as if everyone will afford all those things. Maybe the gap between classes will get bigger: that´s already a problem, resources are scarce...

[@gerrielubbe3968]

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭33:6‬ ‭kjv

[@jeremyjohnson121]

The first Cosmic Probe will be get 2028 -30. Current trouble is ... Missing the Moon Base, you dont need laser lake as propeller power, technical evolution are deleyed scientist someself, economy budget get this same impact... Current scientist missing creation, people from 1950 -1960 -1970 get better creation like as today... Im bored this situation..but I like your optimism...

[@yamesotericist4188]

Amazing! But it will not work for 98% of the audience but you yourself know that. The fact is that Tolle's "Pain Body" turns out to have a physical body too, which works reflexively, automatically and constantly! You must discover it in yourself first!!!

[@nm1978]

I don't agree with your solutions Dr. Mad scientist.

[@lorrainegarcia5277]

Just read your BiBLE it tells you what’s gonna happen in the Future

[@The-Well]

What are your predictions?

[@paulsmith9192]

Remember the prophecy of 2029 they guy had about the asteroid opohis or whatever its,called

[@johnihtbrt1307]

I am tire since angel always come to me at night. He brought me space very near to constalation star. From there angel thought me about secret human, secret if universe just because I read me about my sister book about physic, mathematic and enciclopedia own by father. I always try to prove if angel was true. So I can make war in directly in world. The last the angel showed how to make human arisen from his death even his died in ancient time. But for what? As I have never felt I am God.

[@rustfornoobs1071]

i wana be alive when all this happends :(

[@themacocko6311]

Well Jim, I'd say since you're already dead...

[@rushilairan5502]

Bro, was he joking or not? WAS HE JOKING OR NOT

[@littlebirdie2]

I have this feeling you don’t want me to respond…NOT… So sorry

[@sunnycriti9809]

they have money and can say all kinds of things. are they brilliant like Einstein ?

[@maryanngarcia3080]

Oh, he’ll no!

[@armandoolivares1833]

How. About a giant Lazer that Zappa the astroid out of the sky

[@ChrisTuckerCarlzyn]

I’m tired of people talking about all these moonshot cancer cures just do something about it already. If that’s the future of cancer treatment then why isn’t there at least a trillion into research from just America, we can afford it

[@danielninedorf5502]

What if Proxima Centauri B is already inhabited and sees the "invaders" as needing to be killed ! for there own survival.

[@danielninedorf5502]

Getting a single probe to each of the potential habitable planets to evaluate habitability, including if the planet is already inhabited seems logical.

[@charlesdodimead5658]

Imagine how we'd react to an alien probe...

[@charcatt]

This is not good. No sense of privacy. Those bad memories you want to forget will be save online and people can see it. Students will have lack of motivation to study because it’s easy to get the answers online

[@ruthcollins2841]

Ignore the future enjoy the day, it may be the last one of your life!

[@nenmaster5218]

Science-Fans are Sometimes Dumb. Its ok, i can say that, cause im a Science-Fan myself. But jokes aside: Do you keep yourself updated on local and global Issues, friend? Are you aware of the the possible Food-Shortages as well as the Danger depicted in the GOP-Videos of "Some More News"? Said Channel covers Crops, Hate, War, aaaand mooore, so it’s really valueable-much to keep you updated.