The future may see advancements in claytronics, memory metals, and catoms to allow shapeshifting materials that can take on any form and perform any job - possibly even taking on human form itself.

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Programmable & Smart Matter
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 336, March 31, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

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Programmable & Smart Matter (Narration Only)

In the future we will build outposts and bases in space and on distant worlds, but what if we could make it so they built themselves instead?

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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 337; April 7, 2022
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Christopher Maurer https://www.redhousestudio.net
David McFarlane

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Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

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Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
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Sam McNamara
Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod
Udo Schroeter

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Self-Growing Habitats & Space Bases (Narration Only)

Interstellar civilizations home to hundreds of peacefully cooperating alien species are a common theme in science fiction, but are such civilizations likely or would we instead see conquest and xenocide?

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Alien Civilizations: Multi-Species Empires
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 337a, April 10 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

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Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

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Multi-Species Empires (Narration Only)

Is it possible the Earth might be separated from the Sun or the Sun go out? And if so, could we survive under an eternally dark sky?

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What if Earth became a Rogue Planet?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 338, April 14, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
A.T. Long
Darius Said
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
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What If Earth Became A Rogue Planet? (Narration Only)

In the future we will journey to new worlds, but how will we travel around on them?

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Traveling Around Other Worlds
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 339; April 21, 2022
Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Written by:
Isaac Arthur
Jason Snyder 

Editor:
Darius Said
David McFarlane

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Fishy Tree
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Traveling Around Other Worlds (Narration Only)

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SFIA Monthly Livestream 42 - April 24, 2022

As computers have improved at an accelerating rate for generations now, fears of some emergent super intelligent computer mind have grown, but is such a Technological Singularity Inevitable, and can we survive it?

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Is a Technological Singularity Inevitable?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 340, April 28, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane
Jason Burbank
Konstantin Sokerin

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Is A Technological Singularity Inevitable? (Narration Only)

Science Fiction often shows us alien civilizations so advanced they are godlike, but how realistic are they, and what would such entities be like?

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Alien Civilizations: Godlike Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 341, May 5, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Andrew Nelson
Curt Hartung
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics:
Ken York of YD Visual https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/

Music by:
Martin Rezny, "Lifelight"
Denny Schneidemesser, "Bridge Ambience"
Stellardrone, "A Moment of Stillness", "Cosmic Sunrise", "Limbo"
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
Miguel Johnson, "Strange New World"

Godlike Aliens (Narration Only)

We believe Mars may once have had oceans and sky, but lost them from a lack of a magnetosphere. How does this happen, and how can we create a magnetosphere for Mars so we can terraform and live on it?

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Making a Magnetosphere for Mars
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 342, May 12, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics:
Jarred Eagley
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Ken York of YD Visual https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/
Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gcJarred Eagley
Stephen Huck
The Ashdale Regiment

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Markus Junnikkala https://markusjunnikkala.com
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Making a Magnetosphere for Mars (Narration Only)

A Galaxy of trillion of worlds, all separated by vast gulfs of time and space, it is very easy for pioneers and colonists to disappear. But what happens to these lost space colonies?

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Rogue Civilizations: Lost Space Colonies
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 342a, May 15, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Curt Hartung
Jason Burbank
Keith Blockus

Graphics:
Darth Biomech
Jeremy Jozwik
Ken York
Sergio Botero
Tytus Grabowski
Udo Schroeter

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Lost Space Colonies (Narration Only)

Our capability to render virtual realities better and better makes it seem likely one day we could simulate our world flawlessly, and perhaps our minds too. If so, perhaps we will in the future... and perhaps we already did in the past.

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What are Ancestor Simulations... and are we living in one?
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 345, June 2, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
David McFarlane

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics:
Darth Biomech
Jeremy Jozwik
Udo Schroeter

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
also featuring "Moonstead" by Eric Smith (Rak)