Physicist/author Michio Kaku's new book offers a peek into a future dominated by nanotechnology

Physicist Michio Kaku's new book offers a peek into a world he says will be rich with information gathered by nanotechnology

Home furnishings that can be turned to putty and changed into completely new designs.

A human "body shop" where replacement limbs or organs can be grown on demand.

Kaku is the co-founder of string field theory and a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York.

In the future our bathrooms — the mirrors, toilets and sinks — will be equipped with DNA and protein sensors that will test the molecules we emit in our breath and our bodily fluids several times a day for cancer.

[...] you will know that you have cancer cells 10 years before a tumor ever forms.

Nanoparticles — they already exist — that seek out individual cancer cells can then be injected into the bloodstream, where they will home in on cancer and kill it.

[...] the reason why it's available is because children need vast amounts of computer power to play video games.

[...] the gaming industry is what drives much of computer innovation.

The ultimate endpoint of the gaming industry will be the Matrix.

[...] with your contact lens, you'll be able to create scenes from a science fiction movie, and the thing that you cannot do is, for example, run — if you actually run inside your home, you'll eventually run into the wall — and touch.

[...] I've had a sneak preview by interviewing the people who are inventing the future in their laboratories.