BWC Megastructures & Artificial Planets

BWC Megastructures & Artificial Planets

BWC Megastructures are types of hypothetical mega engineering projects, like artificial planets, who scope is vast, but whose practicality is debatable. To find out more about them and other megastructures, see the Megastructure Compendium:...

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Space Towers

Space Towers

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Transhumanism & Humanity’s Future

Transhumanism & Humanity’s Future

To claim your matching donation with Givewell, go to https://www.givewell.org/isaac In the future, humanity may embrace genetic engineering and cybernetic augmentation of mind and body, but what does this Transhuman future look like? And should we embrace or resist...

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The Megastructure Compendium

The Megastructure Compendium

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future humanity may build enormous structures, feats of mega-engineering that may rival...

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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases

Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases

Visit https://brilliant.org/isaacarthur/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription. In the future we will build outposts and bases in space and on distant worlds, but what if we could make it so...

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Synthetic Life

Synthetic Life

Sign up for a Curiosity Stream subscription and also get a free Nebula subscription (the streaming platform built by creators) here: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur We often discuss cybernetic, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and hybrids of them,...

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Challenges & Predictions for the Next 100 Years

Challenges & Predictions for the Next 100 Years

Try out Curiosity Stream's New Smart Bundle: https://smartbundle.com/isaacarthursb code “isaacarthursb” Every year has new challenges, every generation faces its own unique crises, and as we move into the New Year, we will look at the challenges facing us in the next...

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Biotech: Human Modification and Augmentation

Biotech: Human Modification and Augmentation

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. In the future Biotechnology may allows us repair, modify, or augment humans, but how will this be done? What will these...

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Let’s Dismantle the Solar System!

Let’s Dismantle the Solar System!

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Our solar system contains many planets, moons, and asteroid that we may one day call home, but the future might instead be artificial space habitats, stations, and megastructures of vast size and...

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Non-Carbon Based Life

Non-Carbon Based Life

Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Science Fiction has long contemplated the idea that alien life not based on carbon chemistry such...

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DNA Manipulation in Living Subjects

DNA Manipulation in Living Subjects

Try Dashlane here: https://www.dashlane.com/isaacarthur Get 10% off now with my promo code: isaacarthur Genetic Engineering and DNA alteration is an emerging technology with huge ramifications in the future, including potentially altering the DNA of adult humans, not...

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Accessing Earth’s Core

Accessing Earth’s Core

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ All of our civilization exists only a thin layer of Earth's surface, and our deepest mines barely scratch our planet. We often talk about finding new mineral resources on other worlds or asteroids in the...

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