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Dear colleagues, 

It's widely accepted that mankind has underwent various revolutions starting from the agricultural revolution. Moreover every revolution owes its success to some technological innovation, e.g. plough was crucial for agriculture, wheel and assembly line for industrial age etc. As we're experiencing the Robotics age, do we know where we are headed to by end of 21st century?And which innovations are going to get us there?

In this mastermind work, Michio Kaku provides a glimpse of limitless future we are about to enter in the next 75 years or so. In Visions, Professor Kaku provides vivid details of how the future is going to be shaped by three pillars of technology; quantum, genetic, and bimolecular revolution. This book can easily be considered a rollercoaster ride into the future. Be ready to get dazzled by the vision presented in a mesmerizing manner. 

If you get a chance to go over it, feel free to share your thoughts. 

Thanks

Dear Dr. Singh,
Dear Jayant,

Thank you for this further valuable encouragement from you.

As with your previous contributions, I wholeheartedly agree with you, including your awareness that the question of preparing for a nearly unlimited progress requires reflection and exchange.

As I mentioned earlier, I am working on completing a book "Times and Lives". The more I worked on it, the more I was thrown back from questions of the greatest distance and magnitude to questions of the greatest proximity and smallness.

To the extent that we succeed in ensuring that our sensational advances in science and research, astronomy and cosmology do not outpace the solutions to our accumulated and growing problems on Earth, in the world we live in, both personal and individual, social and collective problems, we can experience the most wondrous things.

Together, we will achieve the unimaginable. This has been the case time and again throughout history, in the coexistence of humankind, in reaching out together, as in the years before the first human being set foot on the moon.

But it goes even higher, including the question of the nature of spirit, the presence and spread of the Holy Spirit, the question of God, the Lord. Here we come to the very smallest, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's monads, a primordial form for what we now call quantum, in the "best of all worlds", for which we also bear responsibility.

We will then also look into the interactive worlds of consciousness, unconsciousness, and conscience, both individual and collective.

We will continue to explore being in and of itself, but beyond that, we will not disdain being in these inner and outer domains, spheres, and layers, including our senses and generalized senses.

In this way, we will also value literature and music, art and culture, and will not be able to do without them. All this with astonishing freedom, which, however, cannot be maintained without certain processes of sanctification.

All this in generalized space-time.

This is then a place where even the seemingly smallest, most unimportant and most inconspicuous matter and are loved.

Here, the crucial role of operational research will surprise many.

Thanks again to you and all the staff of the INFORMS Open Forum.

With kind regards and best wishes,

Willi

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Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Professor
Poznan University of Technology
Poznan
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