Michio Kaku - The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond

I would like to thank the following scientists and experts who have generously given their time and expertise to be interviewed for this book and for my national radio and TV programs. Their knowledge and keen insights into science have helped to make this book possible.

I would also like to thank my agent, Stuart Krichevsky, who has, over all these years, helped to make my books a success. I owe him a great debt of gratitude for all his tireless work. He is always the first person I turn to for sound advice.

I would also like to thank Edward Kastenmeier, my editor at Penguin Random House, for his guidance and comments, which have helped to keep the book focused. As always, his advice has considerably improved the manuscript. His sure hand in editing this book is apparent throughout.

I would like to thank the following pioneers and trailblazers:

Peter Doherty, Nobel laureate, St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital

Gerald Edelman, Nobel laureate, Scripps Research Institute

Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel laureate, Santa Fe Institute and Caltech

Walter Gilbert, Nobel laureate, Harvard University

David Gross, Nobel laureate, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Henry Kendall, Nobel laureate, MIT

Leon Lederman, Nobel laureate, Illinois Institute of Technology

Yoichiro Nambu, Nobel laureate, University of Chicago

Henry Pollack, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Nobel Peace Prize

Joseph Rotblat, Nobel laureate, St. Bartholomews Hospital

Steven Weinberg, Nobel laureate, University of Texas at Austin

Frank Wilczek, Nobel laureate, MIT

Amir Aczel, author of Uranium Wars

Buzz Aldrin, astronaut, NASA, second man to walk on the moon

Geoff Andersen, U.S. Air Force Academy, author of The Telescope

David Archer, geophysical scientist, University of Chicago, author of The Long Thaw

Jay Barbree, coauthor of Moon Shot

John Barrow, physicist, Cambridge University, author of Impossibility

Marcia Bartusiak, author of Einsteins Unfinished Symphony

Jim Bell, astronomer, Cornell University

Gregory Benford, physicist, University of California, Irvine

James Benford, physicist, president of Microwave Sciences

Jeffrey Bennett, author of Beyond UFOs

Bob Berman, astronomer, author of Secrets of the Night Sky

Leslie Biesecker, senior investigator, medical genomics, National Institutes of Health

Piers Bizony, author of How to Build Your Own Spaceship

Michael Blaese, senior investigator, National Institutes of Health

Alex Boese, founder of Museum of Hoaxes

Nick Bostrom, transhumanist, Oxford University

Lt. Col. Robert Bowman, director, Institute for Space and Security Studies

Travis Bradford, author of Solar Revolution

Cynthia Breazeal, codirector, Center for Future Storytelling, MIT Media Laboratory

Lawrence Brody, senior investigator, medical genomics, National Institutes of Health

Rodney Brooks, former director, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Lester Brown, founder and president of Earth Policy Institute

Michael Brown, astronomer, Caltech

James Canton, author of The Extreme Future

Arthur Caplan, founder of Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine

Fritjof Capra, author of The Science of Leonardo

Sean Carroll, cosmologist, Caltech

Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon

Leroy Chiao, astronaut, NASA

Eric Chivian, physician, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

Deepak Chopra, author of Super Brain

George Church, professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School

Thomas Cochran, physicist, Natural Resources Defense Council

Christopher Cokinos, astronomer, author of The Fallen Sky

Francis Collins, director, National Institutes of Health

Vicki Colvin, chemist, Rice University

Neil Comins, physicist, University of Maine, author of The Hazards of Space Travel

Steve Cook, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA spokesperson

Christine Cosgrove, coauthor of Normal at Any Cost

Steve Cousins, Willow Garage Personal Robots Program

Philip Coyle, former U.S. assistant secretary of defense

Daniel Crevier, computer scientist, CEO of Coreco Imaging

Ken Croswell, astronomer, author of Magnificent Universe

Steven Cummer, computer scientist, Duke University

Mark Cutkosky, mechanical engineer, Stanford University

Paul Davies, physicist, author of Superforce

Daniel Dennett, codirector, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University

Michael Dertouzos, computer scientist, MIT

Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winner, UCLA

Mariette DiChristina, editor in chief, Scientific American

Peter Dilworth, research scientist, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

John Donoghue, creator of BrainGate, Brown University

Ann Druyan, writer and producer, Cosmos Studios

Freeman Dyson, physicist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

David Eagleman, neuroscientist, Stanford University

Paul Ehrlich, environmentalist, Stanford University

John Ellis, physicist, CERN

Daniel Fairbanks, geneticist, Utah Valley University, author of Relics of Eden

Timothy Ferris, writer and producer, author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Maria Finitzo, filmmaker, stem cell expert, Peabody Award winner

Robert Finkelstein, robotics and computer science, Robotic Technology, Inc.

Christopher Flavin, senior fellow, Worldwatch Institute

Louis Friedman, cofounder, Planetary Society

Jack Gallant, neuroscientist, University of California, Berkeley

James Garvin, chief scientist, NASA

Evalyn Gates, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, author of Einsteins Telescope

Michael Gazzaniga, neurologist, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jack Geiger, cofounder, Physicians for Social Responsibility

David Gelernter, computer scientist, Yale University

Neil Gershenfeld, director, Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT Media Laboratory