Dr. Michio Kaku Interviewed At SF Signal

SF Signal have an excellent interview with Dr. Michio Kaku. He's the guy who speculates about the future, recently seen on the BBC4 series Visions Of The Future. I've read his book Visions which does a nice job of explaining some tricky science.

I like the fact that the SF Signal crew got in a question about Mundane SF, made me smile, and I liked Kaku's answer:

MK: Science fiction based on just believable technology is fine, since it forces us to conjure up strange and unusual circumstances involving mundane forms of technology. In this sense, it is more realistic than science fiction based on fantastic technologies.

However, personally, I like to dream, especially of technologies which stretch the imagination and probe the boundaries of what is possible.

His optimism is infectious,

I have to disagree somewhat with his comments about Einstein's theories however:

Thus, his theory is full of pictures, such as rockets, trains, elevators, even merry-go-rounds, that children can understand.

When I was learning Special Relativity my tutor gave me some great advice, "Don't think about it, just learn the maths, otherwise it will fry your brain." :-)