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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 Utopia, but its dark reflection is the Post-Discontent society, one where through deception or brainwashing people do not even known how they are being deprived or oppressed. 

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Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies  
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 273a; January 17, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Jerry Guern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgArWbEhZg
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Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies (Narration Only)

Water is one of the most common substances in the Universe, and Earth has far more seas than land and life arose in the ocean first. Planets covered entirely in water may be common and abundant with life, including intelligence extraterrestrial life.

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Alien Civilization: Oceanic Aliens
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 274; January 21, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Oceanic Aliens (Narration Only)

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SFIA Monthly Livestream 27 - January 31 2021

Colonizing space and settling the minor planets and asteroids may mean adjusting to much lower levels of gravity, or micro-gravity, what sort of biological and cultural adaptations might that require of humanity?

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Zero-Gravity Civilizations
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 276; February 4, 2021

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Zero-Gravity Civilizations

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?

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Dark Matter Technologies
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 277, February 11, 2021
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Dark Matter Technologies (Narration Only)

Dark Matter Technologies

Science Fiction often shows us aliens and human living among one another in space, but how realistic are such portrayals and what sort of accommodation would extraterrestrials need for their environments? We will also ask if humans and aliens could live together, possibly even marry and have hybrid offspring.

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Multi-Species Civilizations & Co-Alien Habitats
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 277a; February 14, 2021
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Multi-Species Civilizations & Co-Alien Habitats

They say you should always attack from the high ground, and there's no higher ground than from orbit. Today we'll examine orbital strikes, asteroid bombardment, kinetic weapons, dropships, and how to defend from them.

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Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space https://www.amazon.com/dp/1498583113/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_HK0PTVKG08VM0GK11J7Z
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Orbital Bombardment
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 278; February 18, 2021
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Orbital Bombardment (Narration Only)

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SFIA Monthly Livestream 28 - February 28, 2021

Future battlefields will employ ever-more technology, whether that battlefield is on earth, in the sea, in space, or in cyberspace. Today we will examine the roles robots, drones, artificial intelligence, armored suits, and nanotech may play in the future of war. 

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The Next Century of War
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 280; March 4, 2021

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Jason Burbank

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