Post-Human Species

Post-Human Species

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur As Humanity moves into the future, traveling to other worlds and exploring genetics, AI, transhumanism, and cybernetics, we may begin to diverge into a thousand post-human species. Visit our...

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Creating a Sense of Purpose in a Post-Scarcity Society

Creating a Sense of Purpose in a Post-Scarcity Society

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur04211 In the future technology may help us enjoy prosperity beyond our dreams, with robots manufacturing our goods and attending all our needs but...

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The Effects of Longer Lifespans

The Effects of Longer Lifespans

Go to https://buyraycon.com/isaacarthur for 15% off your order! Brought to you by Raycon. In the future, medical science may increase lifespan and longevity to the point of near-immortality, but what would be the effects of such technology on our civilization. Visit...

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AI Run Government

AI Run Government

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 we will rely ever more on Artificial Intelligence to run our civilization, but what role will AI and computers...

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What is Sentience?

What is Sentience?

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future we may encounter or create minds equal to our own, smarter, or somewhere in the gap between human and animal. And yet we still barely understand what concepts like intelligence...

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Exo-Stellar Civilizations

Exo-Stellar Civilizations

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Our future in the galaxy is typically envisioned as tied to the stars, be it on planets orbiting them or vast megastructures fueled by the alien suns, and yet the true future of humanity...

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Killing Stars

Killing Stars

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ When the largest of stars dies, the supernova they produce can outshine a whole galaxy, and potentially sterilize vast swathes of space. Future civilizations will need to be able to prevent or mitigate...

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The Next Century of War

The Next Century of War

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. Future battlefields will employ ever-more technology, whether that battlefield is on earth, in the sea, in space, or in...

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Orbital Bombardment

Orbital Bombardment

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Multi-Species Civilizations & Co-Alien Habitats

Multi-Species Civilizations & Co-Alien Habitats

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur02211 Science Fiction often shows us aliens and human living among one another in space, but how realistic are such portrayals and what sort of...

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Dark Matter Technologies

Dark Matter Technologies

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Dark Matter is both the most abundant and most mysterious substance in the Universe, what properties does it have and what technologies might we create to use it in the future? Visit our...

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Zero-Gravity Civilizations

Zero-Gravity Civilizations

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. Colonizing space and settling the minor planets and asteroids may mean adjusting to much lower levels of gravity, or...

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