A couple of weeks back, I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Michio Kaku – theoretical physicist, futurist, popular author and television personality — speak at SOLIDWORKS World. As I expected, he was smart, insightful, funny and all-around entertaining. Dr. Kaku spoke about the future of the world around us: the things we’ll create, the places we’ll go, the way we’ll live, the worlds we’ll explore. He did a great job, and at the end I found myself thinking, “Well of course all of those things will happen. They’re already happening all around us!”
Dr. Kaku is renowned for taking futuristic and scientific topics and communicating them to broad audiences. As a result, it struck me as odd that I didn’t find much of his speech surprising. That is, until I overheard a mechanical engineer talking about how his company is actively working on some of the thing Dr. Kaku was talking about.
Last week we hosted the 3rd annual TEC Talk in Boston. Even though we were competing with the Red Sox on TV, we still drew a great crowd – and I had so many comments afterward that I just had to write about it.