{"product_id":"the-future-of-the-mind-isbn-9780307473349","title":"The Future of the Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER • The renowned theoretical physicist and national bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe God Equation\u003c\/i\u003e tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Compelling…Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Future of the Mind \u003c\/i\u003ebrings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality. This scientific tour de force unveils the astonishing research being done in top laboratories around the world—all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics—including recent experiments in telepathy, mind control, avatars, telekinesis, and recording memories and dreams. \u003ci\u003eThe Future of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience. Dr. Kaku looks toward the day when we may achieve the ability to upload the human brain to a computer, neuron for neuron; project thoughts and emotions around the world on a brain-net; take a “smart pill” to enhance cognition; send our consciousness across the universe; and push the very limits of immortality.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Future of the Mind,\u003c\/i\u003e #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Compelling…Kaku thinks with great breadth, and the vistas he presents us are worth the trip.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Intriguing….extraordinary findings…A fascinating sprint through everything from telepathy research to the 147,456 processors of the Blue Gene computer, which has been used to simulate 4.5% of the brain’s synapses and neurons.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Fizzes with his characteristic effervescence….Fascinating….. For all his talk of surrogates and intelligent robots, no manufactured being could have a fraction of his charisma.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A mind-bending study of the possibilities of the brain....a clear and readable guide to what is going on at a time of astonishingly rapid change.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cb\u003eIn this expansive, illuminating journey through the mind,\u003c\/b\u003e theoretical physicist Kaku (\u003ci\u003ePhysics of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e) explores fantastical realms of science fiction that may soon become our reality. His futurist framework merges physics with neuroscience... applied to demonstrations that “show proof-of-principle” in accomplishing what was previously fictional: that minds can be read, memories can be digitally stored, and intelligences can be improved to great extents. \u003cb\u003eThe discussion, while heavily scientific, is engaging, clear, and replete with cinematic references\u003c\/b\u003e.... \u003cb\u003eThese new mental frontiers make for captivating reading.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Kaku turns his attention to the human mind with equally satisfying results\u003c\/b\u003e…Telepathy is no longer a fantasy since scanners can already detect, if crudely, what a subject is thinking, and genetics and biochemistry now allow researchers to alter memories and increase intelligence in animals. Direct electrical stimulation of distinct brain regions has changed behavior, awakened comatose patients, relieved depression, and produced out-of-body and religious experiences… Kaku is not shy about quoting science-fiction movies and TV (he has seen them all)… \u003cb\u003ehe delivers ingenious predictions extrapolated from good research already in progress.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Facts to ponder: there are as many stars in our galaxy (about 100 billion) as there are neurons in your brain; your cell phone has more computing power than NASA had when it landed Apollo 11 on the moon. These seemingly unrelated facts tell us two things: our brains are magnificently complex organisms, and science fiction has a way of becoming reality rather quickly. \u003cb\u003eThis deeply fascinating book\u003c\/b\u003e by theoretical physicist Kaku explores what might be in store for our minds: practical telepathy and telekinesis; artificial memories implanted into our brains; and a pill that will make us smarter. He describes work being done right now on using sensors to read images in the human brain and on downloading artificial memories into the brain to treat victims of strokes and Alzheimer’s. SF fans \u003cb\u003emight experience a sort of breathless thrill when reading the book\u003c\/b\u003e—This stuff is happening! It’s really happening!—and for general readers who have never really thought of the brain in all its glorious complexity and potential, the book could be \u003cb\u003ea seriously mind-opening experience.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003ePhysics of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] wide-ranging tour of what to expect from technological progress over the next century or so.... fascinating—and related with commendable clarity\" —\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mind-bending...Kaku has a gift for explaining incredibly complex concepts, on subjects as far-ranging as nanotechnology and space travel, in language the lay reader can grasp....engrossing\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Epic in its scope and heroic in its inspiration\" —\u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"[Kaku] has the rare ability to take complicated scientific theories and turn them into readable tales about what our lives will be like in the future.... Fun...fascinating. And just a little bit spooky\" —\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Physics of the Impossible\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An invigorating experience\" \u003ci\u003e—The Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Kaku's latest book aims to explain exactly why some visions of the future may eventually be realized while others are likely to remain beyond the bounds of possibility.... Science fiction often explores such questions; science falls silent at this point. Kaku's work helps to fill a void.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Mighty few theoretical physicists would bother expounding some of these possible impossibilities, and Kaku is to be congratulated for doing so.... [He gets] the juices of future physicists flowing.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e MICHIO KAKU is a professor of physics at the City University of New York, cofounder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including \u003ci\u003eHyperspace, Beyond Einstein, Physics of the Impossible,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhysics of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the science correspondent for CBS's \u003ci\u003eThis Morning\u003c\/i\u003e and host of the radio programs \u003ci\u003eScience Fantastic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eExplorations in Science\u003c\/i\u003e.Houdini believed that telepathy was impossible. But science is proving\u003cbr\u003eHoudini wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Telepathy is now the subject of intense research at universities around\u003cbr\u003ethe world, where scientists have already been able to use advanced sensors to\u003cbr\u003eread individual words, images, and thoughts in a person’s brain. This could\u003cbr\u003ealter the way we communicate with stroke and accident victims who are\u003cbr\u003e“locked in” their bodies, unable to articulate their thoughts except through\u003cbr\u003eblinks. But that’s just the start. Telepathy might also radically change the way\u003cbr\u003ewe interact with computers and the outside world.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   Indeed, in a recent “Next 5 in 5 Forecast,” which predicts five revolutionary\u003cbr\u003edevelopments in the next five years, IBM scientists claimed that we will\u003cbr\u003ebe able to mentally communicate with computers, perhaps replacing the\u003cbr\u003emouse and voice commands. This means using the power of the mind to call\u003cbr\u003epeople on the phone, pay credit card bills, drive cars, make appointments,\u003cbr\u003ecreate beautiful symphonies and works of art, etc. The possibilities are endless,\u003cbr\u003eand it seems that everyone— from computer giants, educators, video\u003cbr\u003egame companies, and music studios to the Pentagon— is converging on this\u003cbr\u003etechnology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   True telepathy, found in science-fiction and fantasy novels, is not possible\u003cbr\u003ewithout outside assistance. As we know, the brain is electrical. In general,\u003cbr\u003eanytime an electron is accelerated, it gives off electromagnetic radiation. The\u003cbr\u003esame holds true for electrons oscillating inside the brain, which broadcasts\u003cbr\u003eradio waves. But these signals are too faint to be detected by others, and\u003cbr\u003eeven if we could perceive these radio waves, it would be difficult to make\u003cbr\u003esense of them. Evolution has not given us the ability to decipher this collection\u003cbr\u003eof random radio signals, but computers can. Scientists have been able\u003cbr\u003eto get crude approximations of a person’s thoughts using EEG scans. Subjects\u003cbr\u003ewould put on a helmet with EEG sensors and concentrate on certain\u003cbr\u003epictures— say, the image of a car. The EEG signals were then recorded for\u003cbr\u003eeach image and eventually a rudimentary dictionary of thought was created,\u003cbr\u003ewith a one- to- one correspondence between a person’s thoughts and the EEG\u003cbr\u003eimage. Then, when a person was shown a picture of another car, the computer\u003cbr\u003ewould recognize the EEG pattern as being from a car.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   The advantage of EEG sensors is that they are noninvasive and quick.\u003cbr\u003eYou simply put a helmet containing many electrodes onto the surface of the\u003cbr\u003ebrain and the EEG can rapidly identify signals that change every millisecond.\u003cbr\u003eBut the problem with EEG sensors, as we have seen, is that electromagnetic\u003cbr\u003ewaves deteriorate as they pass through the skull, and it is difficult to locate\u003cbr\u003etheir precise source. This method can tell if you are thinking of a car or a\u003cbr\u003ehouse, but it cannot re- create an image of the car. That is where Dr. Jack Gallant’s\u003cbr\u003ework comes in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVIDEOS OF THE MIND\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe epicenter for much of this research is the University of California at\u003cbr\u003eBerkeley, where I received my own Ph.D. in theoretical physics years ago. I\u003cbr\u003ehad the pleasure of touring the laboratory of Dr. Gallant, whose group has\u003cbr\u003eaccomplished a feat once considered to be impossible: videotaping people’s\u003cbr\u003ethoughts. “This is a major leap forward reconstructing internal imagery. We\u003cbr\u003eare opening a window into the movies in our mind,” says Gallant.\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e   When I visited his laboratory, the first thing I noticed was the team of\u003cbr\u003eyoung, eager postdoctoral and graduate students huddled in front of their\u003cbr\u003ecomputer screens, looking intently at video images that were reconstructed\u003cbr\u003efrom someone’s brain scan. Talking to Gallant’s team, you feel as though you\u003cbr\u003eare witnessing scientific history in the making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Gallant explained to me that first the subject lies flat on a stretcher, which\u003cbr\u003eis slowly inserted headfirst into a huge, state- of- the- art MRI machine, costing\u003cbr\u003eupward of $3 million. The subject is then shown several movie clips (such\u003cbr\u003eas movie trailers readily available on YouTube). To accumulate enough data,\u003cbr\u003ethe subject has to sit motionless for hours watching these clips, a truly arduous\u003cbr\u003etask. I asked one of the postdocs, Dr. Shinji Nishimoto, how they found\u003cbr\u003evolunteers who were willing to lie still for hours on end with only fragments\u003cbr\u003eof video footage to occupy the time. He said the people in the room, the grad\u003cbr\u003estudents and postdocs, volunteered to be guinea pigs for their own research.\u003cbr\u003eAs the subject watches the movies, the MRI machine creates a 3- D image\u003cbr\u003eof the blood flow within the brain. The MRI image looks like a vast collection\u003cbr\u003eof thirty thousand dots, or voxels. Each voxel represents a pinpoint of neural energy, and the color of the dot corresponds to the intensity of the signal and blood flow. Red dots represent points of large neural activity, while blue dots represent points of less activity. (The final image looks very much like thousands of Christmas lights in the shape of the brain. Immediately you can see that the brain is concentrating most of its mental energy in the visual cortex, which is located at the back of the brain, while watching these videos.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Gallant’s MRI machine is so powerful it can identify two to three hundred distinct regions of the brain and, on average, can take snapshots that have one hundred dots per region of the brain. (One goal for future generations of MRI technology is to provide an even sharper resolution by increasing the number of dots per region of the brain.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   At first, this 3- D collection of colored dots looks like gibberish. But after\u003cbr\u003eyears of research, Dr. Gallant and his colleagues have developed a mathematical\u003cbr\u003eformula that begins to find relationships between certain features of a picture (edges, textures, intensity, etc.) and the MRI voxels. For example, if you look at a boundary, you’ll notice it’s a region separating lighter and darker areas, and hence the edge generates a certain pattern of voxels. By having subject after subject view such a large library of movie clips, this mathematical formula is refined, allowing the computer to analyze how all sorts of images are converted into MRI voxels. Eventually the scientists were able to ascertain a direct correlation between certain MRI patterns of voxels\u003cbr\u003eand features within each picture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   At this point, the subject is then shown another movie trailer. The computer\u003cbr\u003eanalyzes the voxels generated during this viewing and re- creates a rough approximation of the original image. (The computer selects images from one hundred movie clips that most closely resemble the one that the subject just saw and then merges images to create a close approximation.) In this way, the computer is able to create a fuzzy video of the visual imagery going through your mind. Dr. Gallant’s mathematical formula is so versatile that it can take a collection of MRI voxels and convert it into a picture, or it can do the reverse, taking a picture and then converting it to MRI voxels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I had a chance to view the video created by Dr. Gallant’s group, and it was\u003cbr\u003every impressive. Watching it was like viewing a movie with faces, animals,\u003cbr\u003estreet scenes, and buildings through dark glasses. Although you could not\u003cbr\u003esee the details within each face or animal, you could clearly identify the kind\u003cbr\u003eof object you were seeing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Not only can this program decode what you are looking at, it can also\u003cbr\u003edecode imaginary images circulating in your head. Let’s say you are asked to\u003cbr\u003ethink of the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa. \u003c\/i\u003eWe know from MRI scans that even though you’re\u003cbr\u003enot viewing the painting with your eyes, the visual cortex of your brain will\u003cbr\u003elight up. Dr. Gallant’s program then scans your brain while you are thinking\u003cbr\u003eof the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa \u003c\/i\u003eand flips through its data files of pictures, trying to find the\u003cbr\u003eclosest match. In one experiment I saw, the computer selected a picture of\u003cbr\u003ethe actress Salma Hayek as the closest approximation to the \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa. \u003c\/i\u003eOf\u003cbr\u003ecourse, the average person can easily recognize hundreds of faces, but the\u003cbr\u003efact that the computer analyzed an image within a person’s brain and then\u003cbr\u003epicked out this picture from millions of random pictures at its disposal is\u003cbr\u003estill impressive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   The goal of this whole process is to create an accurate dictionary that\u003cbr\u003eallows you to rapidly match an object in the real world with the MRI pattern\u003cbr\u003ein your brain. In general, a detailed match is very difficult and will take years,\u003cbr\u003ebut some categories are actually easy to read just by flipping through some\u003cbr\u003ephotographs. Dr. Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France in Paris was\u003cbr\u003eexamining MRI scans of the parietal lobe, where numbers are recognized,\u003cbr\u003ewhen one of his postdocs casually mentioned that just by quickly scanning\u003cbr\u003ethe MRI pattern, he could tell what number the subject was looking at. In\u003cbr\u003efact, certain numbers created distinctive patterns on the MRI scan. He notes,\u003cbr\u003e“If you take 200 voxels in this area, and look at which of them are active\u003cbr\u003eand which are inactive, you can construct a machine-learning device that\u003cbr\u003edecodes which number is being held in memory.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   This leaves open the question of when we might be able to have picture quality\u003cbr\u003evideos of our thoughts. Unfortunately, information is lost when a\u003cbr\u003eperson is visualizing an image. Brain scans corroborate this. When you compare\u003cbr\u003ethe MRI scan of the brain as it is looking at a flower to an MRI scan\u003cbr\u003eas the brain is thinking about a flower, you immediately see that the second\u003cbr\u003eimage has far fewer dots than the first. So although this technology will\u003cbr\u003evastly improve in the coming years, it will never be perfect. (I once read a\u003cbr\u003eshort story in which a man meets a genie who offers to create anything that\u003cbr\u003ethe person can imagine. The man immediately asks for a luxury car, a jet\u003cbr\u003eplane, and a million dollars. At first, the man is ecstatic. But when he looks at\u003cbr\u003ethese items in detail, he sees that the car and the plane have no engines, and\u003cbr\u003ethe image on the cash is all blurred. Everything is useless. This is because our\u003cbr\u003ememories are only approximations of the real thing.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   But given the rapidity with which scientists are beginning to decode the\u003cbr\u003eMRI patterns in the brain, will we soon be able to actually read words and\u003cbr\u003ethoughts circulating in the mind?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREADING THE MIND\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn fact, in a building next to Gallant’s laboratory, Dr. Brian Pasley and his\u003cbr\u003ecolleagues are literally reading thoughts— at least in principle. One of the\u003cbr\u003epostdocs there, Dr. Sara Szczepanski, explained to me how they are able to\u003cbr\u003eidentify words inside the mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   The scientists used what is called ECOG (electrocorticogram) technology,\u003cbr\u003ewhich is a vast improvement over the jumble of signals that EEG scans\u003cbr\u003eproduce. ECOG scans are unprecedented in accuracy and resolution, since\u003cbr\u003esignals are directly recorded from the brain and do not pass through the\u003cbr\u003eskull. The flipside is that one has to remove a portion of the skull to place a\u003cbr\u003emesh, containing sixty-four electrodes in an eight-by-eight grid, directly on\u003cbr\u003etop of the exposed brain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Luckily they were able to get permission to conduct experiments with\u003cbr\u003eECOG scans on epileptic patients, who were suffering from debilitating seizures.\u003cbr\u003eThe ECOG mesh was placed on the patients’ brains while open- brain\u003cbr\u003esurgery was being performed by doctors at the nearby University of California\u003cbr\u003eat San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   As the patients hear various words, signals from their brains pass through\u003cbr\u003ethe electrodes and are then recorded. Eventually a dictionary is formed,\u003cbr\u003ematching the word with the signals emanating from the electrodes in the\u003cbr\u003ebrain. Later, when a word is uttered, one can see the same electrical pattern. This correspondence also means that if one is thinking of a certain word, the\u003cbr\u003ecomputer can pick up the characteristic signals and identify it.\u003cbr\u003eWith this technology, it might be possible to have a conversation that\u003cbr\u003etakes place entirely telepathically. Also, stroke victims who are totally paralyzed\u003cbr\u003emay be able to “talk” through a voice synthesizer that recognizes the\u003cbr\u003ebrain patterns of individual words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Not surprisingly, BMI (brain- machine interface) has become a hot field,\u003cbr\u003ewith groups around the country making significant breakthroughs. Similar\u003cbr\u003eresults were obtained by scientists at the University of Utah in 2011. They\u003cbr\u003eplaced grids, each containing sixteen electrodes, over the facial motor cortex\u003cbr\u003e(which controls movements of the mouth, lips, tongue, and face) and\u003cbr\u003eWernicke’s area, which processes information about language. The person was then asked to say ten common words, such as “yes” and “no,” “hot” and “cold,” “hungry” and “thirsty,” “hello” and “good- bye,” and “more” and “less.” Using a computer to record the brain signals when these words were uttered, the scientists were able to create a rough one- to- one correspondence between spoken words and computer signals from the brain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Later, when the patient voiced certain words, they were able to correctly\u003cbr\u003eidentify each one with an accuracy ranging from 76 percent to 90 percent.\u003cbr\u003eThe next step is to use grids with 121 electrodes to get better resolution.\u003cbr\u003eIn the future, this procedure may prove useful for individuals suffering\u003cbr\u003efrom strokes or paralyzing illnesses such as Lou Gehrig’s disease, who would\u003cbr\u003ebe able to speak using the brain- to- computer technique.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTYPING WITH THE MIND\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, Dr. Jerry Shih has hooked up epileptic\u003cbr\u003epatients via ECOG sensors so they can learn how to type with the mind.\u003cbr\u003eThe calibration of this device is simple. The patient is first shown a series\u003cbr\u003eof letters and is told to focus mentally on each symbol. A computer records\u003cbr\u003ethe signals emanating from the brain as it scans each letter. As with the other\u003cbr\u003eexperiments, once this one- to- one dictionary is created, it is then a simple\u003cbr\u003ematter for the person to merely think of the letter and for the letter to be\u003cbr\u003etyped on a screen, using only the power of the mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Dr. Shih, the leader of this project, says that the accuracy of his machine\u003cbr\u003eis nearly 100 percent. Dr. Shih believes that he can next create a machine to\u003cbr\u003erecord images, not just words, that patients conceive in their minds. This\u003cbr\u003ecould have applications for artists and architects, but the big drawback of\u003cbr\u003eECOG technology, as we have mentioned, is that it requires opening up\u003cbr\u003epatients’ brains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Meanwhile, EEG typewriters, because they are noninvasive, are entering\u003cbr\u003ethe marketplace. They are not as accurate or precise as ECOG typewriters,\u003cbr\u003ebut they have the advantage that they can be sold over the counter. Guger\u003cbr\u003eTechnologies, based in Austria, recently demonstrated an EEG typewriter at\u003cbr\u003ea trade show. According to their officials, it takes only ten minutes or so for\u003cbr\u003epeople to learn how to use this machine, and they can then type at the rate\u003cbr\u003eof five to ten words per minute.","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302042423525,"sku":"NP9780307473349","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307473349.jpg?v=1767739459","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-future-of-the-mind-isbn-9780307473349","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}