Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Biohacks & Brain Mods - The Coming Age of Implant Culture Mar 26, 2026

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Biohacks and brain implants are coming fast. From memory upgrades to neural meshes, how will implant culture reshape identity, economics, and civilization itself?

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Biohacks & Brain Mods - The Coming Age of Implant Culture

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Edited by: Chris Gray & Donagh Broderick

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

1:28 The First Layer – The Implants Already Here

3:08 The Early Adoption Phase – Niche Enhancements

5:27 Safety vs Freedom

8:25 Implant Economics

14:31 The Social Shift – The Rise of Implant Culture

20:04 Minds in Motion – Cognitive Architecture as a Design Space

21:50 Implant Maximalism – Full-Stack Upgrades

23:03 Nebula

24:09 Post-Implant Society – Upgrades as Life Stages

25:40 The Far Horizon – When Implants Become Civilization

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Biohacks & Brain Mods - The Coming Age of Implant Culture (Narration Only) Mar 26, 2026

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Biohacks and brain implants are coming fast. From memory upgrades to neural meshes, how will implant culture reshape identity, economics, and civilization itself?

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Credits:

Biohacks & Brain Mods - The Coming Age of Implant Culture

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Edited by: Chris Gray & Donagh Broderick

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

1:28 The First Layer – The Implants Already Here

3:08 The Early Adoption Phase – Niche Enhancements

5:27 Safety vs Freedom

8:25 Implant Economics

14:31 The Social Shift – The Rise of Implant Culture

20:04 Minds in Motion – Cognitive Architecture as a Design Space

21:50 Implant Maximalism – Full-Stack Upgrades

23:03 Nebula

24:09 Post-Implant Society – Upgrades as Life Stages

25:40 The Far Horizon – When Implants Become Civilization

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Micro Planets: Building Artificial Worlds with Black Hole Cores (Narration Only) Mar 22, 2026

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What if we built entire planets around tiny black holes? Explore engineered micro worlds, artificial gravity, and the future of compact megastructures.

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Micro Planets - Building Artificial Worlds with Black Hole Cores

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Micro Planets: Building Artificial Worlds with Black Hole Cores Mar 22, 2026

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What if we built entire planets around tiny black holes? Explore engineered micro worlds, artificial gravity, and the future of compact megastructures.

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Micro Planets - Building Artificial Worlds with Black Hole Cores

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Colonizing Brown Dwarfs – Life Around Failed Stars Mar 19, 2026

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Colonizing brown dwarfs: habitats, megastructures, and hidden homes around failed stars. Could these dim embers power civilizations for trillions of years?

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Colonizing Brown Dwarfs – Life Around Failed Stars

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

1:56 WHAT A BROWN DWARF IS

7:15 L Dwarfs

11:57 T-Dwarfs

17:04 Nebula

18:15 Habitable Zones

22:12 Megastructures

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Colonizing Brown Dwarfs – Life Around Failed Stars (Narration Only) Mar 19, 2026

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Colonizing brown dwarfs: habitats, megastructures, and hidden homes around failed stars. Could these dim embers power civilizations for trillions of years?

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Colonizing Brown Dwarfs – Life Around Failed Stars

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Graphics from Fishy Tree, Jeremy Jozwik, Udo Schroeter

Music Courtesy of Chris Zabriskie & Stellardrone

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

1:56 WHAT A BROWN DWARF IS

7:15 L Dwarfs

11:57 T-Dwarfs

17:04 Nebula

18:15 Habitable Zones

22:12 Megastructures

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Beyond Rockets - 100 Years of Rocketry and What Comes Next Mar 15, 2026

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From Goddard’s first rocket to space elevators and mass drivers, we explore 100 years of rocketry—and the launch technologies that could carry humanity beyond rockets.

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Credits: Beyond Rockets - 100 Years of Rocketry and What Comes Next

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Editor: Charles Slatkin

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

1:48 The Pioneering Century

5:49 The Physics of Rockets

8:20 The Coming Revolution in Launch Systems

11:50 Beyond Rockets — The Alternative Gateways to Space

12:26 Space Elevators

13:49 Skyhooks and Rotovators

15:04 Orbital Rings

17:58 Mass Drivers and Coilguns

19:05 Nebula

20:18 Launch Loops and Dynamic Tethers

21:13 High-Altitude and Hybrid Launch Systems

22:39 Toward a Post-Rocket Civilization

23:15 The Road Ahead — Humanity’s Next Launch Century

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Beyond Rockets - 100 Years of Rocketry and What Comes Next (Narration Only) Mar 15, 2026

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From Goddard’s first rocket to space elevators and mass drivers, we explore 100 years of rocketry—and the launch technologies that could carry humanity beyond rockets.

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Credits: Beyond Rockets - 100 Years of Rocketry and What Comes Next

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Editor: Charles Slatkin

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

1:48 The Pioneering Century

5:49 The Physics of Rockets

8:20 The Coming Revolution in Launch Systems

11:50 Beyond Rockets — The Alternative Gateways to Space

12:26 Space Elevators

13:49 Skyhooks and Rotovators

15:04 Orbital Rings

17:58 Mass Drivers and Coilguns

19:05 Nebula

20:18 Launch Loops and Dynamic Tethers

21:13 High-Altitude and Hybrid Launch Systems

22:39 Toward a Post-Rocket Civilization

23:15 The Road Ahead — Humanity’s Next Launch Century

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What Happens When AI Runs the Entire Economy? Mar 12, 2026

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What happens when AI controls prices, jobs, markets, and growth itself? Explore the future of an economy run by machines—and what it means for work, power, and humanity.

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Credits: What Happens When AI Runs the Entire Economy?

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Chapters

0:00 Intro - The Invisible Hand Becomes a Neural Network

2:58 What Does “Running the Economy” Actually Mean?

5:30 What Does “Running the Economy” Actually Mean?

10:19 Labor in an AI-Run Economy

14:41 Who Programs the Economy’s Values?

17:01 Government, Power, and Economic Sovereignty

20:21 So, Can Humans Stay in the Loop?

22:56 The Best-Case and Worst-Case Futures

24:53 Abolish Everything

25:57 The Last Economic Decisions We Ever Make

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What Happens When AI Runs the Entire Economy? (Narration Only) Mar 12, 2026

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What happens when AI controls prices, jobs, markets, and growth itself? Explore the future of an economy run by machines—and what it means for work, power, and humanity.

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