Twenty years from now, semiconductor chips will cost a penny apiece and will be in everything — our clothing, our sunglasses, our contact lenses and even our toilets — physicist Michio Kaku told an audience Thursday at the RSA 2011 convention. They’ll revolutionize warfare, manufacturing and the medical field, said Kaku, one of the co-founders of string field theory. Kaku’s talk was based on interviews he conducted with 300 of the world’s top scientists about their views of the future.
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Visions of a Future Chock-Full of Chips
Posted by: Richard Adhikari February 18, 2011 10:40 AMTwenty years from now, semiconductor chips will cost a penny apiece and will be in everything — our clothing, our sunglasses, our contact lenses and even our toilets — physicist Michio Kaku told an audience Thursday at the RSA 2011 convention. They’ll revolutionize warfare, manufacturing and the medical field, said Kaku, one of the co-founders of string field theory. Kaku’s talk was based on interviews he conducted with 300 of the world’s top scientists about their views of the future.