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Exploration
The "Exploration" radio show is an hour-long science program heard nationally. Exploration covers the world of science, war and peace, and the environment. The show has commentary and interviews with top scientists and environmentalists.
On Explorations this week Dr. Michio Kaku examines innovation and invention.
His first guest is Randall E. Stross, a historian who writes mostly about present-day technology, business, and society. He is the author of The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World a biography of Thomas Edison. Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention”. As the inventor of the phonograph and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion picture cameras, Edison’s name became a household word. But as Randall Stross makes clear in his biography of the man Edison’s greatest invention may have been his own celebrity. Edison was a technical genius, and Stross separates his true achievements from his almost equally colossal failures.
Next, Michio Kaku speaks MIT Professor Seth Lloyd, self-described “quantum mechanic”. Lloyd’s research centers on the interplay of information with complex systems, especially quantum systems. In his book “Programming the Universe,” he contends that the universe itself is one big quantum computer producing what we see around us, and ourselves, as it runs a cosmic program.
The science of the 21st century.
Exploration is an hour-long radio program on science, technology, politics, and the environment. Topics covered include black holes, time travel, higher dimensions, string theory, wormholes, search for extra-terrestrial life, dark matter and dark energy, the future of space travel, genetic engineering, the aging process, the future of medicine, the human body shop, artificial intelligence, the future of computers and robots, as well as topics from science fiction.
