Micio Kaku could be a modern-day Jules Verne, a man who predicts the future as if it were science fiction. But this isn’t so. He is a great promoter of science who has made scientific rigour his standard and who runs a modern laboratory in which scientists from all over the world have carried out research. It is not in vain that Kaku anticipates that we are on the edge of an unprecedented technological revolution but that with the right tools and knowledge we have nothing to fear because we can take control of our future.