- James Dyson: "An interesting look into how things like nanotechnology could change how we interact with the devices in our home, making them smarter, more efficient." source ↗
Physicist Michio Kaku's 2011 forecast of scientific progress over the next century, built from interviews with hundreds of leading scientists across nanotechnology, AI, biotechnology, and space travel. Each chapter projects a domain forward — medicine, computing, energy, space — based on what researchers at the frontier believe is achievable within a human lifetime.
Dyson named this among his ten desert-island books, citing its picture of how nanotechnology could make household devices smarter and more efficient. For a founder, Kaku's book is useful not as a prediction but as a map of what the smartest people in each field believe is coming — and therefore where the seams for new businesses will open. Dyson has built a career on reading technological trajectories earlier than his competitors; this is the kind of reading that feeds that habit.