Although he allows for the possibility of global hara-kiri, or visiting death stars, on the whole he has an inspiringly upbeat and good-humoured vision of the future. While Einstein liked to think in terms of pictures, Kaku typically thinks in terms of movies, especially ones with Hollywood endings. And they are all sitting around reading HG Wells and Asimov, and watching reruns of Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kaku sees Plato, St Augustine and Bertrand Russell as occupying the same space-time continuum as Einstein, Heisenberg and Hawking. The great thing about Kaku is that he would not even understand the very British idea of the "two cultures", CP Snow's split between well-spoken literary types, and scientists, who carry their brains around in vats and are incapable of communicating with other earthlings.
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