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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur explores humanity’s long-term future through space exploration, advanced technology, and big-picture science. Hosted by National Space Society President Isaac Arthur, each episode uses real science and careful speculation to examine space colonization, megastructures, artificial intelligence, post-scarcity economies, and the physics shaping civilization beyond Earth.

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All Episodes

02:13:28

Interstellar Colonization Compendium (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/07/11

Space is huge, immense beyond our wildest dreams. In order to explore and settle it, we’ll need to learn to dream a lot bigger and bolder than ever before

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00:30:25

Cyborg Civilizations (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/07/07

We often contemplate cyborgs, people enhanced by machines, but what would a civilization built upon cybernetics be like?

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00:32:05

Roko's Basilisk (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/07/04

The dangers of artificial intelligence have long loomed in our future, and seem ever closer. But it may be that the dangers of the future can reach back into the past itself, and even without a time machine.

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00:32:43

Roko's Basilisk

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/07/04

The dangers of artificial intelligence have long loomed in our future, and seem ever closer. But it may be that the dangers of the future can reach back into the past itself, and even without a time machine.

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00:34:52

Free Will, Quantum & Orchestrated Objective Reduction

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/30

An extended exploration of what science tells us about free will and consciousness in a quantum universe, including Sir Roger Penrose's theory of Orchestrated Objective Reduction.

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00:36:01

Free Will, Quantum & Orchestrated Objective Reduction...

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/30

An extended exploration of what science tells us about free will and consciousness in a quantum universe, including Sir Roger Penrose's theory of Orchestrated Objective Reduction.

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00:36:13

Megastructures: Hollow Earth

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/27

Earth is immense, but we only live on a thin shell of its surface. So what if we built a planet with only that thin shell, or with several layers of them?

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00:35:38

Megastructures: Hollow Earth (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/27

Earth is immense, but we only live on a thin shell of its surface. So what if we built a planet with only that thin shell, or with several layers of them?

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00:33:06

What If The Dinosaurs Hadn't Died Off? (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/20

What if dinosaurs have survived the asteroid impact? Could we have seen a shared dino-mammal ecology, or even intelligent dinosaurs?

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00:33:38

What If The Dinosaurs Hadn't Died Off?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/20

What if dinosaurs have survived the asteroid impact? Could we have seen a shared dino-mammal ecology, or even intelligent dinosaurs?

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00:39:07

Paradise Planets (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/16

As we reach out to the stars and settle other worlds, could we find or create ones even better for humanity than Earth?

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00:39:46

Paradise Planets

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/16

As we reach out to the stars and settle other worlds, could we find or create ones even better for humanity than Earth?

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00:28:46

Oceanic Moons (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/13

The galaxy has many stars orbited by many planets, and many of these are orbited by immense icy moons, but could others have oceans on their surface, or even life?

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00:36:12

The Fermi Paradox: Timebombs

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/06

Many fear future technologies may doom our civilization, but could the pursuit of technology, and civilization itself, be what dooms humanity?

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00:35:42

The Fermi Paradox: Timebombs (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/06

Many fear future technologies may doom our civilization, but could the pursuit of technology, and civilization itself, be what dooms humanity?

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00:28:09

Jobs In Space

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/02

We all dream of a future in space, but it will take a lot of work to get there and more to make it a place we can visit and live. Of course, where there’s work to be done, there’s jobs to be had.

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00:29:11

Jobs In Space (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/06/02

We all dream of a future in space, but it will take a lot of work to get there and more to make it a place we can visit and live. Of course, where there’s work to be done, there’s jobs to be had.

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00:31:47

Colonizing Ganymede

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/05/30

Ganymede is an enormous moon, larger than any other we’ve found, including our own, and may one day be the centerpiece of wider human settlements around Jupiter.

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00:31:12

Colonizing Ganymede (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/05/30

Ganymede is an enormous moon, larger than any other we’ve found, including our own, and may one day be the centerpiece of wider human settlements around Jupiter.

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00:26:52

Space Freighters, Cargos & Crews

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur ·

2024/05/26

One day we may settle thousands of planets and trade between them, but what would a space freighter be like, who would crew them, and what would they carry?

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