The Next Technological Revolution

The Next Technological Revolution

If you love card games, definitely check out Doomlings. Click here and use code ISAAC20 to get 20% off of your copy of Doomlings! https://bit.ly/IsaacDoomlings Technology has shaped our civilization as it grew down the centuries, and since the industrial revolution,...

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Atmospheric Mining

Atmospheric Mining

Science fiction has popularized asteroid mining and cities in the sky, but could the future of mining be in cloud cities hanging far above distant worlds? Watch my exclusive video on Life As An Asteroid Miner:...

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Mobile Cities

Mobile Cities

Humanity has often preferred to move its communities, and in the future we might do that by moving our entire cities, by air, sea, or land. Watch my exclusive video on Nomadic Miners On The Moon: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-nomadic-miners-on-the-moon Get...

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Hive Worlds

Hive Worlds

To get started planning a career that works on one of the world’s most pressing problems, sign up now at https://80000hours.org/isaacarthur Science fiction often shows us dark, grimy, dystopian mega-cities in the future, but are such planet-wide cities possible, what...

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Smart Cities

Smart Cities

To get started planning a career that works on one of the world’s most pressing problems, sign up now at https://80000hours.org/isaacarthur Cities in the future will need to be increasingly clever in how they operate, by utilizing more data collection, automation, and...

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Mega-Cities

Mega-Cities

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Science Fiction delights in showing us grim, dark, giant, and dystopian future cities of covered in garbage and where life is cheap, but how realistic are such metropolises and how can we avoid living in...

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Can we have a Trillion People on Earth?

Can we have a Trillion People on Earth?

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Could Earth be home to a trillion people, or even more? We'll explore if we can do this with current technology, what future technologies would help, and what such a planet-wide city, an...

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Cloud Cities

Cloud Cities

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Humanity has long wished to dwell among the clouds, today we'll look at what options we may have in the future for floating a city or home high in the sky. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net...

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Subterranean Civilizations

Subterranean Civilizations

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Historically humanity has often taken shelter in caves or underground, and it is often thought we might do so again, on other worlds, in event of disasters, or simply because we run out of room on the...

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