Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies

Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur01211 Machines may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming they don't take over instead, and we dream of a future that is a Post-Scarcity...

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Cryonics: Frozen Civilizations

Cryonics: Frozen Civilizations

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Cryonic freezing offers a pathway to reap future medical technologies today by preserving someone for future restoration, but what would the impact of this technology be on civilization?...

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Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations

Low-Tech Kardashev-2 Civilizations

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Kardashev-2 Civilizations are hypothetical empires which encompass entire stars, with access to billions of times the energy Earth has, often seen as builders of megastructures like Dyson Spheres. But...

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Interstellar Navigation

Interstellar Navigation

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Navigating the vast ocean of the galaxy to reach distant stars will be no easy matter, but future spaceships may find many new difficulties finding their way throughout space, and also...

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Terraforming: Forging New Worlds

Terraforming: Forging New Worlds

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Our galaxy likely contains trillions of worlds, and perhaps none we could live on without great effort to make them like Earth. To colonize these worlds, to make them settlements for our descendants in...

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Space Colonies: From Outposts to Cities

Space Colonies: From Outposts to Cities

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur As we venture out into space to colonize new planets, moons, and asteroids, how will these new settlements grow from simple outposts in to developed worlds with cities and civilizations all...

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Surviving the Next Century

Surviving the Next Century

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. The last century has been one of awesome and often terrifying technological progress, and the next century offers as many...

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Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements

Asteroid Mining & Orbital Settlements

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Asteroids represent a threat to Earth, but in the future they may be a boon, serving as sources of vast wealth and resources, and as orbital settlements and keystones of interplanetary...

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Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive

Fermi Paradox: The Prime Directive

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ One solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that extraterrestrials might hide from us to avoid altering our society, a concept we see in Star Trek called the Prime...

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Interstellar Trade & Cyclers

Interstellar Trade & Cyclers

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Establishing Interstellar Trade and Commerce in the future will require an entirely new approach to moving cargo, as years if not centuries might pass for shipments to arrive by even the...

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Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization

Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization

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. The Kardashev Scale measures how powerful a high-tech civilization is, with K-1 indicating a advanced society able to call on...

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Terrifying Aliens

Terrifying Aliens

The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur10201 Aliens are portrayed in Science Fiction both as our potential saviors and best friends, as well as the stuff of nightmares. Would an...

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