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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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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Genetic Divergence & Civilization

Genetic Divergence & Civilization

The first 1000 people who click the link in the description will get 2 free months of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur16 As humanity reaches out to the stars and make new homes on strange new worlds, how will our genetics & DNA change under those...

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Economies of the Future

Economies of the Future

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ The future of humanity might be one of unrivaled prosperity - a post-scarcity civilization - of abundant power, advanced automation and robotics, and sophisticated artificial intelligence helping boost...

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Coexistence of Humans & AI

Coexistence of Humans & AI

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Artificial Intelligence, while still limited to only the most simplistic computers and robots, is beginning to emerge and will only grow smarter. Can humanity survive it's own creations and...

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Springtime on Mars: Terraforming the Red Planet

Springtime on Mars: Terraforming the Red Planet

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Colonizing Mars and terraforming it to be a comfortable future home for humanity is quite the challenge. How would we go about it and how close is close enough for our purposes? How would we let life...

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Megastructure Maintenance & Space Janitors

Megastructure Maintenance & Space Janitors

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ In the future humanity might build structures of incomprehensible size and splendor, megastructures and artificial worlds, but somebody is going to have to build and maintain these feats of science and...

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Seeding the Stars

Seeding the Stars

Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaac5 The galaxy is a vast place with billions of potential new worlds for humanity to colonize, but interstellar space is so enormous that reaching even the nearest stars and planets by spaceship...

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Colonizing the Oceans

Colonizing the Oceans

Use my link http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "ISAAC" to 500-500 to get a free book including a copy of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and a 30-day free trial of Audible. Our seas and oceans have always been central to our civilization, but only the...

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Galactic Humanity & the Fermi Paradox, Part 1

Galactic Humanity & the Fermi Paradox, Part 1

Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Watch Part 2: https://youtu.be/tbvmxo90F9I For today's 2-part episode we team again with John Michael Godier to discuss the future of humanity should we head out to colonize the galaxy and find it empty,...

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