The Future in 2050 with Dr. Michio Kaku & Alex Klokus |

Dr. Michio Kaku is one of the most renowned figures in science and the world today. He is a theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, futurist, and popularizer of science, he co-founded “String Field Theory” and continues Einstein’s quest to unite the fundamental forces of nature into a single grand unified “Theory of Everything.”
Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics at City University New York, graduating summa cum laude from Harvard with a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He has written numerous New York Times bestselling books including The Future of Humanity, The Future of the Mind, Physics of the Future, and Physics of the Impossible.
Moderator Alex Klokus is a Founder and Managing Partner at the SALT Fund. Alex is a serial entrepreneur who built and sold both the media company Futurism and the sleep and wellness business Gravity.
Chapters
0:00 - Intro
2:03 - Is there intelligent life on the Earth?
3:18 - What will be the main drivers of change in the future? Where does wealth come from?
5:07 - What is the fourth wave of wealth generation and what is the fifth wave?
7:44 - Will there people on Mars by 2050? What is the solar age?
13:27 - Are there any existential risks that will prevent us from making it to 2050?
14:42 - How intelligent is our most advanced robot today?
18:33 - Digital immortality and digitized consciousness
21:01 - Is there a universal digital highway in the universe?
31:50 - The theory of everything
38:05 - Are we approaching the end of the digital age?
39:31 - How will we view our great, great grandkids?
SALT New York is a global thought leadership and networking forum at the intersection of finance, technology and public policy. Over the course of three days, leading investors, creators and thinkers will take the stage in support of SALT’s mission: empowering big ideas.
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[@retipserjayzoom]

This is the wrong host to have

[@VinnyTheory]

Dr. Kaku is extremely wise and humble. Never gets insulted or bothered by others actions

[@melcor5736]

It really bothers me when hosts do not act with grace and courtesy. This means this is how they are too in their homes. Notice how the host walks in so full of himself sitting hard on his chair without waiting for his guest to sit first. So disrespectful.

[@BB-sc6pi]

I also noticed that. It's appropriate that you have mentioned that.

[@sagm33]

I agree and unfortunately this behavior is actually promoted as a false machismo in certain circles. Arrogance and machismo is not a sign of anything positive, if anything it's just a sign of human species degradation.

[@dotflakes]

Same here The guy showed inappropriate manner to Dr Kaku.

[@paulmulenga8742]

Dr Kaku makes me feel like quiting my legal career and studying physics.

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My dog's name is Salt. And searching his name brought me here. And I'm glad I did 😌

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OMG! This is a beautifully explained and so encouraging 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@cryptochap4593]

Boss!! Fabulous interesting analysis,, unique,, respected,, Wow, Thank you for sharing, Superb.

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Thanks for watching!

[@quasar4601]

Anytime Dr. Kaku talks ..I am in wonder Thx 🙏

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Glad you enjoyed it @Quasar!

[@komalsadvilkar2817]

Outstanding👌 information 👍Amazing I like it 💕 Thanks for upload this video , @SALT Chanel

[@ianbanerji]

This guy Alex is super disrespectful. Sits down before Dr Kaku even sat. In his intro compares him to Paris Hilton. Super weirdo. His eyes lit up when Dr Kaku talks about "gucci, chanelle' LOL all he could relate to

[@HassanWorld]

Dude I really had the same opinion as you lol, this dude does not care about Dr. Kaku at all.

[@aanifshabir1554]

@@HassanWorld yes

[@godlikenovauniverse1118]

🤣💯👍

[@tituszhonah60]

I agree

[@werimutamihana1901]

The moderator is over his head

[@lizgichora6472]

Exciting!! Thank you.

[@SALTTube]

Thanks for watching!

[@veronicarino]

Quit it with the Paris Hilton comments and show Dr.Kaku some respect mate. You’ve got a legend there and all you can say is how he is better looking than Paris Hilton? What an immature thing to say!

[@dedengunawan877]

He's too old to be offended by petty matters though

[@leeheyblok497]

😭

[@dobcho95]

I've seen many interviews where Micho Kaku explains how we could one day upload our minds and become digitally immortal but no one ever asked him if he would do it if it was possible now.. I guess he would :)

[@thearianrobben]

of course if all u care is about the people facing interface of yourself like these snobs then yeah u can consider it as immortality 🤣

[@quasar4601]

My biggest interest would be in , Genetic engineering!! That field is going to be amazing

[@blessingsfromspirit6881]

Not impressed with The interviewer... Paris Hilton?? I love Dr. Kaku’s theory about digital consciousness. It’s possible that they are already in digital consciousness…hadn’t thought about that..they could be in avatars themselves. (I want an avatar!!) Maybe the UFO’s are just aliens drones

[@mariohuirsezelarayan7187]

El Dr. Kaku es un maestro para quienes le seguimos, sufro por no poder escuchar o leer, subtitulado en español todo lo que dice.

[@KVuong-rv2hs]

I cannot stop listening to Dr. Michio Kaku.

[@rajukeepadhillon9988]

Amazing information ❤

[@terrydaniels9126]

Dr kakuis Is so brilliant

[@dr.hussainbuxkolachi6343]

Nice update and learning

[@SALTTube]

Glad you liked it 👍

[@samuelyuri645]

I think mister kaku should have made some predictions about us curing aging in the next decades. Good interview by the way.

[@javierderivero9299]

I totally agree curing aging is disregarded by most of the futurists....many of them are physicists, engineers, etc....they disregard the impact of the biology revolution...but at least Kaku mention the impact of biotechnology

[@ChannelHalcrow]

I love this guy.

[@zwriter3658]

I always feel like im in a kids science class when he speaks..

[@SALTTube]

Agreed!

[@ariannaperaltaabud6437]

Aw

[@HassanWorld]

Alex, show more respect. This is a disrespectful intro.

[@Gerald.S.Williams]

Really was.

[@dotflakes]

It's unfortunate

[@iBuyBitcoin]

Dude I was so irritated also by what he said wtf

[@maryfeist8080]

Cringe!

[@AJMorgillo]

What did he say that was disrespectful ?

[@richardrose8297]

This is very interesting, but no economist would say that wealth comes from printing money.

[@fahmirahman4073]

only in front of television, go to white house and you would be surpise

[@bluesea1110]

The deficit myth! Sell all over the world! New York time bestseller ! Translated in to Vietnamese language 🌴🌴🛵🛵

[@malikather9329]

Amazing talk. My only concern is will peace prevail in the world

[@SALTTube]

Glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@fumarate1]

yes thats what I was thinking..or are we fucked.

[@funnyvidstoday101]

no it won't, reason is we are humans, if we had world peace without any war, how long do you think it will last

[@funnyvidstoday101]

prob at least 24 hours

[@jkanthanshan5188]

Super

[@johnphil2006]

I feel when the time goes.. the density of the information increasing, which seems the universe is shrinking to infinite information of singularity . May be the meaning of universe is an evolution of some super intelligent power (or some boltzman brain) which conceive through all this various tremendous experiences (say consciousness) !

[@AlinaDemeterEsq.-kg7if]

❤This!

[@thatoneguy6233]

Star Wars is real guys,and there are other universes meaning DC, Marvel or any other "fictional" movie you've watched, truly exists. This is mind blowing.

[@ryepooh5052]

no they dont.

[@Avatar_2025]

they do exist. After reading the Unknown Reality by Seth through Jane Roberts, you are correct.Time expands inward and outward so, meaning, there is infinite 2024s in parallel counterparts of ourselves exist following different paths from the one we took.

[@kalinatrenevska5869]

Interesting and inspiring but I like the part explaining cats and dogs, so now I can understand my Gizmo

[@Avatar_2025]

You can't steal something from someone who is in sink with your thoughts. We are souls having human experience and in most cases one soul having human experience through multiple bodies simultaneously.

[@wayne975]

Around 22:00 One can only bring knowledge back, physical matter cannot cross the dimension.

[@blablablabla4245]

An Alien is not thinking about what tec humankind can give or make. Its all about the consciousness for them. And love and peace is universal 🌍 ☮️ ✌️

[@GroovismOrg]

The next “wave” will Be technical belief in the power of our instincts! The internet demands us to unify instinctively! “Be One” is no longer some esoteric phrase. Be One can now Be. Entrainment & Flow are now known & more easily reachable, teachable, & manifestable! The power of our minds Groovin’ will prove evolution!! Groove On Ken

[@Wolfmon555]

What stocks should we invest for in prep for 2050 😅😅😅

[@domenicorutigliano9717]

We will be Alive : so optimistic

[@Jackal]

great interview and what a wonderful host

[@SALTTube]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@grzegorzjuchniewicz7158]

4th wave included longevity, human enhancement, 100% of cerebral capacity, AGI, super computers, gallium nitride chips, holographic devices, Nanomedicine, 5th wave: will be zero point energy system as electrogravitic propulsion drive, quantum teleportation, alternative realities,

[@TechVlogger00]

And sixth wave will be to bring us back alive from the dead 🤣😂

[@jorgevasconcelosmadetomove]

just be here now

[@iikimida]

What was the opening about? Comparing self to Paris Hilton... where does that come from??

[@SALTTube]

Paris Hilton was the lunch panel the day before at SALT NY, hence the Paris references.

[@owencampbell4947]

This was an interesting future view, prediction, and thoughts from dr. Michiu Kaku, only the last statement that humans will take the position of God's is a mentality wish due to the influenced information of a supernatural being, that is manifested in most human beings.

[@AlinaDemeterEsq.-kg7if]

Aliens are in....our DNA. They arrived here, long ago. I like the.... Highway idea...❤Peace. Love it!

[@hossiehaile3933]

Bitcoin is a planetary Bank. Ethereum is a planetary computer. first type civilization.

[@notgunnadoit7461]

I actually; after much pondering; believe human language is the first part of a type one civilization. That's our first and greatest tech and writing is number 2!

[@illusivequest2684]

wow

[@franciscevallos1882]

If you are in the forest,do you talk to a squirrel?thats a good one

[@g1leongkhaihwei734]

We're in a segmented world of 80% arts and 20% science educated populations , lockdowns are prevalent , wealth are through NFT

[@ryepooh5052]

tf u on? sound like an amateur

[@ahmetdogan5685]

30 years from now in 2050, and laugh at this video.

[@midwayer11]

There’s a lack of knowledge and acknowledgement of the soul in relation to all of this. We are more than just our bodies and we have such little knowledge of this. The pursuit of technology to enhance ourselves is too early because we don’t understand what we are. Even Dr. Kaku has expressed a very limited and negative view of us humans as a species so how are we supposed to build from this in any meaningful or healthy way? It’s too early and this will ultimately lead to a higher understanding of ourselves but not before we put the most essential part of ourselves at risk. Our soul.

[@yawzerdoink-a-sore-as8159]

The laser thing was soo far out!

[@edjasper6296]

They are made of light.

[@GroovismOrg]

Our ‘Ace in the hole” is our belief in miracles. A miracle is needed! When billions of us Groove, unite, & believe, Groovism is the belief in the known, rehabilitative properties of music!!

[@iulius_august]

older clips with dr michio kaku were far more interesting, probably reading more about the stuff he explains i started to see somemething more. i like more Ray Kurzweil :)

[@jimnickola7196]

Dr. Kaku is great, but “printing money” is not borrowing against future generations.

[@paulsmith9192]

Only critique, he repeats himself in many interviews

[@rg-cb2wd]

For decades

[@macc240038]

And he always says, " we physicists". Like he includes all physicists , and himself, in inventing everything that made the world what it is today. Not the people in the back room. Not the engineers. Not the technicians. Was Thomas Edison a physicist, for example. Or Tesla ? No.

[@isaacgreenough3448]

❤

[@SALTTube]

Thanks for watching Isaac!

[@alp3781]

Dr. Kaku, we love you. Can I be your next door neighbor? I would wait by my garage everyday to say hi and ask you questions. You would be so sorry to the point you would sell your house.

[@SALTTube]

😂😂

[@talk2thejay]

I love Dr Michio,however I don't agree that robots will progress superslow. Quantum computing and AI will impact this tech significantly.

[@danielcooper2382]

... ... Rossi said his patented device (2015) can produce electricity for $0.01/kWh, which, for this analysis, I will assume is true. However, he did not factor in the cost of distribution, which is currently no less than $0.05/kWh and considering needed infrastructure improvements to incorporate his devices into the grid, $0.10/kWh. Since the Chinese currently deliver electricity to their businesses for $0.05/kWh, retail, and have plans to do so for the next 40 years with the same tried and true coal fired electricity generation plants, and Rossi sold them the rights to his device (for manufacture and distribution in China) for $100 million, any means of producing electricity that utilizes the same central distribution system (the grid) will fail (be non-competitive). If any candidate chooses to jump on board the Make America Great bandwagon, I suggest that they do so with a more realistic financial prospectus.

[@noneyabusiness33]

Lol he just called everyone dumb 🤣 he's so funny and personable! I know he's one of the good guys!

[@SALTTube]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dscuffman7679]

not a fan of the guy asking questions, i wish we could get more intelligent people to interview these kind of people

[@Kokorikovaati]

Dr. Michio Kaku is a leading authority in physics and his theory and contribution to science. He is world renowned and recognizzed, admired, respected and looked up to by countless of high intelligent men, women and aspiring future scientist, and as such any time this unique, precious and ineffable human being chooses to spend some of his valuable and irreplaceable time you should recognize and respect such a man of his stature and at the least not compare him to such people like paris hilton. Nothing against her, but Dr. Michio Kaku is light year above and beyond her. its upsetting to see people like Alex Klokus not only be as ignorant as he is but to be disrespectful. I am truly sorry that Dr. Michio Kaku had to endure this. this is equal to if not worse then waterboarding. .

[@jeffersonott4357]

I mean, he’s been slowly eroding that respect amongst his peers for years, so, I’d say he’s not too far out of place. I like him, but I’d say 20 years ago he was a highly respected legit physicist, now, he is a decently respected science communicator, who will legitimize a lot of woo woo for a paycheck. I’m not mad at that, but you are overreacting.

[@lustralustra]

Solar age=pure energy=kinetic energy of photons in movement, he is right. Elastic angular momentum super computer which will manage negative/positive processes instead of a super battary.

[@brianoleson9224]

did u catch the nuclear predictions he said in video , 7 months later Russia invades ukraine and we have very serious nuclear threats pretty crazy

[@tonyspattaya7204]

Great news…

[@anticorruption6135]

Very nice interview and well coordinated by Moderator. A little improvement required. The Moderator should not face the sole of his shoes towards audience. Not liked in many cultures....

[@johnfaram4684]

do these people acknowledge the reality of "the worlds conciousness"

[@steinarbruun3852]

Life is the creation of wealth????? My my my. How wrong I have been all the years. I thought life was adventure, learning, exploring, challenges, personal growth, love, joy, grief... a process of becoming the best human one could be. Glad my life is coming to a close. I have never had the desire to become or work for a robot.

[@et1bas751]

I'm Kokomo for Kako

[@Gitohandro]

Sad he won't live to see it.

[@carama3590]

You mean before NYC turns to salt?

[@franciscevallos1882]

Wow Neural Brain Net

[@alesterleong249]

Wow that Alex guy is super condescending and utterly disrespectful. Dr Kaku is sharing something way beyond what he can conceive.

[@ninik-vs4pq]

i would invite everyone on this video to watch 'How to enjoy the end of the world ' by Sid Smith. Climate catastrophe is real, and fastly approaching, and we will barely have food or water in a couple decades. Only a few perhaps will be able to achieve what's being discussed on this video and the rest of us are going to suffer immensely from collapse. I find Kaku highly optimistic, and only a few will be going to space, if ever. So bad news folks, capitalism never favors the poor.

[@parapitro8828]

I don't pretend to compete with Dr. Kaku but before colonizing Mars, and even if it seems absurd to most of you, we should perhaps know what its inhabitants think of it. And what about zero point energy that some researchers had already discovered at the beginning of 20th century but were silenced ?

[@filamcouple_teamalleiah8479]

Dr. Kaku almost has it correct! But as with organisms the ability to acquire a mate and reproduce is only possible IF basic needs are first met. It is surplus energy that produces all wealth. The difference between the energy expended to acquire energy and the energy acquired is the net energy that drives metabolism and our industrial civilization. Unfortunately, we have drawn all the low hanging fruit already. Perhaps a new tech will come along like fusion or small thorium reactors to save us but I doubt it. We are essentially committed to 2 C+ and with it will come a very significant reduction in crop yields. On top of this fishery collapses, coral reef bleaching, soil erosion and soil degradation, inc failed states and famine, fresh water aquifer depletion, petroleum depletion, heat waves, floods, sea level rise, creeping inc in wet bulb temps of 31 C in the tropics and semitropics, etc...WILL WRECK CIVILIZATION. WE MIGHT HAVE 2 DECADES LEFT IF WE ARE LUCKY.

[@SonShines1]

2050 good luck

[@yawzerdoink-a-sore-as8159]

Professor Kaku is more far out than the craziest LSD trip

[@zsoltkiss545]

?

[@jockofthebushveld299]

I remeber watching a Program on TV 50 years ago in the UK called Tomorrow's World,demonstrating a laser which then was a big piece of equipment, they showed how a laser beam could be fired at a clear Baloon with a Black Ballon inside it,the Black Ballon would Burst leaving clear Baloon still inflated that was it,the presenter asked what else can it do ? he was told we really dont know presently we still have to find some applications we can use it on? now look where we are today with laser Technology Industrial Medical and most other technologies, and Dr Kaku is now proposing the transportation of consciousness using Laser,I have to say we've come a long way in 50 year's from Busrsting Ballons with a Laser Beam ?.?

[@ruiferreira6578]

Dr Kaku made a confusion between life expectancy and live survival. Those who passed the infancy would live to 70 to 90. Life expectancy of my grandfather and my father's family was 25 y (their brothers died in the first years of life) but their survivability was 96 y. So when people say that because of increased expectancy of life, people have to work more and retire later, it's stupid. It's completely the opposite. Because of increased expectancy of life the working force has almost quadruple and so people can work less and retire sonner. And we haven't talked about the new methods of production factor in increasing the capacity of that working force.

[@mogli7016]

haha..how to get the avatars there before the conscious light reaches over there? Not the moon...

[@EternalLife42]

Energy from seawater

[@rastymazhar4835]

Alex is obsessed with video games! as for the topic, consciousness is the challenge, the rest is easy.

[@handnubbz]

Hypothetically talking

[@user-uj9cc5ch5p]

everything in your field of Xperience is directly related to where your imagination can take you.

[@samirkhairnar]

I am afraid what the 5th generation will look like ! Hard to imagine...

[@ThepurposeofTime]

Omg he's like the Chocobo Sage in FF7 😆😆😆 Glad some new stuff was squeezed out of him

[@SALTTube]

Thanks for watching!

[@CarlosSilva-ti5ib]

I agree. Michio is an adorable and funny person, but is saying the same jokes and the same ideas all the time.

[@Livanz1]

I just can't wait to be microchipped and downloaded to the moon then laser beamed to Proxima Centauri ( to begin with ) as an immortal avatar so I can watch Paris Hilton dancing naked under the Sun ...

[@truthRevealed73]

57 years left to end this world and process is already started

[@ryepooh5052]

no lmao. weirdo

[@KGold53]

All the fabulism, a uniquely American trait. I’m worried about what could go wrong, and found this session giving short shrift to the big risk…nuclear disaster, either in the form of WWIII type nuclear holocaust, or massive nuclear terrorism or accident. This is why a new world order that is multipolar and not hegemonic, featuring global cooperation and friendly relations between and among all nation-states, especially US and China, is vital. No more Cold War or warmongering mentality, please.

[@aliengod2039]

The way humanity evolved is not the right way. Materialistic evolution leads to extinction of a species. Spiritual evolution is the only way we can eliminate all pain and suffering and yet jump beyond this universe even without the need or necessity of material technology.

[@user-sk1fr1kc9l]

@@aliengod2039 History of Human Being proved the development of technology was inevitable. Can we develop spiritually?

[@aliengod2039]

@@user-sk1fr1kc9l Absolutely. Spirituality is basically genetic engineering at it's core. Material technology is only developed to reinforce survival of the fittest. But, spiritual development ensures every individual in the entire species is altruistic. This means like for example, when your phone gets a software update, every other phone of the same make gets it right? Likewise, when someone discovered or got a supernatural ability, it will be instantly and telepathically shared to rest of the beings in such a world or spiritual utopia. Practice of yoga and meditation itself will cleanse and power up your DNA so you can pass on superior and supernatural DNA to your children. Refinement at every next level will make a natural superhuman species possible.

[@vadizaitsev3967]

.. unic man ... Humorous and Universes..!?+!+?

[@keithgross7604]

What future, you mean the past.

[@jonathanbrotto7278]

2057

[@luispenuela8246]

I love to see how Dr Kaku didn't know what The Sims is. But nonetheless, he said: When we do things like SimCity what we do: we take shortcuts. That's the very core of the game. What a BOSS! He explained to us in 10 seconds what a simulation is, etc...

[@lauraanderson7358]

"Type 1" = G L O B A L I S M

[@mistycloud4455]

A.G.I Will be man's last invention

[@billybob-dz6tu]

This is not a future that sounds reasonable .. in fact, it sounds downright corrupt and sinister.

[@mistycloud4455]

A.G.I Will be man's last Invention.

[@portabee]

This is a soul farm..

[@xnl2396]

???????

[@midwayer11]

This guy has called us ants, zoo animals, stupid, boring and not worth much as a species. I wouldn’t trust him with any technology. Maybe it’s the opposite of what Dr, Kaka says. Maybe we are extremely interesting and intelligent and very important to our extraterrestrial family. Maybe we are from them and of them. Maybe they are our parents in an expanded sense. A parent loves and cares about their children more than anything.