I am from a third world country Bangladesh. I wake up every morning knowing that the rest of the day will be extremely painful. I work 16 hours a day restlessly and barely able to pay the bills. Life for me is all but misery. Still it breaks my heart knowing that I will not be alive to see the first interstellar ship that will reach another solar system. I am eternally grateful to you Isaac, for continuing this amazing channel.
I feel so sorry for you. I am living in England and I hate to say this, but I feel very lucky to be born here. I wish that one day, your country may prosper in the future, and the living standards will increase. But sadly, I think this might not be the case as there will always be people who only want power for themselves and keep the rest of the nation in poverty. Hell, maybe, the UK might be a hell hole in the future. Maybe, the UK becomes a dictatorship. But we will never know. All I can hope for myself and you, is that we, and the rest of Humanity can prosper, and have a better future for us and the next generation.
I am from Bangladesh too. I live in Dhaka and I am grateful for the privileged life I have. I also took some effort to construct it in a certain way. I think mindset matters a lot. And Isaac's channel definitely is a prompt to that. Be optimistic and make small changes happen. :)
I hope one day, your country will have everything that it needs and not only needs--but wants. I hope your country thrives, I hope all countries thrive one day. I hope all of our countries can work together and collaborate and contribute on projects! Don’t be so sure! Let hope keep getting you up in the morning❤
Yea I just want to know if there's other lifeforms too beyond our planet so I can die in peace knowing the answer. Too bad I won't live long enough to witness the first contact. Btw I'm from Meghalaya, your neighbor.
8:52 Who would've thought that the most horrifying thing 300 years from now would be that draconian homeowners associations still exist? Truly dystopian.😳
You'd just be a head in a jar, that was resurrected by an AI bot. That a 5th grader summoned for a science project, who wanted to see what life was like in the pre-historic, pre-world war 3 era, pre-nuclear fall out earth, "age of war".😮
In the year 2323, Isaac Arthur celebrates the release of his 2000th episode. His fans celebrate with him at a virtual party and symposium, and the comment section is filled with those who reminisce about episode 400 and how much he got right so far in the past 😊
Episode *400* !!! Congratulations Isaac and the entire SFIA community!!! What an amazing channel and group of people we have supporting it. Onward to episode 500 and 1M subscribers!! 💫🙏🍻
I had to stop listening because his narration is so calming I always fall asleep. I hope when I die I wake to this man telling me my journey has just begun, grab a drink and a snack.
@@mrt1957 hahaha!! As do I my friend!! If it wasn’t for Isaac Arthur and John Michael Godier I think I don’t think I would get half the quality of rest that I do at night! 🙏💫😴🍻
@@js70371 That is a standing joke with me and John, what percentage of our audience falls asleep listening to us and whose is higher :) One of our staff at Nebula messaged me to check if it was okay to add my show to the recommended watching fro those trying to fall asleep, in case it offended, I told him I'd been proudly curing insomnia since 2014.
Here’s ‘food for thought’: Instead of imagining possible science for future centuries, maybe we’d be smarter thinking of a way to fight for a world that gives most of the people a livable planet, food for everyone, renewable sources and greenest storages of energy, as much transparency in politics and the working of the governments as possible, least inequality possible, progressive taxes, no misogyny, no racism, no ableism, no homophobia or transphobia, no prejudices toward people different than those that represent the privileged majority, free education for everyone, free medicine for everyone, free housing, transportation and Internet for everyone, a functional infrastructure, reparations to those affected by settler-colonialism, imperialism and ‘free-trade’ capitalism (neoliberalism), least possible working hours, etc… And when I talk about everyone, I talk about the whole world. Not only the ‘global north’. While it’s nice daydreaming about the future, why not do it in a way that imagines a better world for everyone? What I’m trying to say is that you can’t imagine a realistic future if you’re ignoring all the stuff that’s wrong in the present. The technical stuff isn’t the problem, nor is it a solution, as long as the overall system guiding everyone is monstrous. We should strive for Star Trek or The Culture, not Blade Runner or Mad Max.
My favorite UA-camr. You're like the Beethoven of UA-cam, having worked through, and overcome a not insignificant hurdle for a podcast/lecture style content creator, and create masterpieces of the art, inspire countless people, and have earned tremendous honors in your field.
There's a lot of chaos, unrest and injustice in the world, quite a lot to be upset about, and rightly so--but this channel keeps my hopes for the future alive. Thank you, Issac, and congrats on episode 400!
@@NakedProphet How is it fantasy if his predictions don't violate the laws of physics? He could be wrong in his predictions but the onus is on you to explain why they are impossible.
What a ride.... most people I talk to, don't give a shit about things you envision. Most "trolls" online can't think beyond their fancy cars or the latest fashion trends. I am very happy to see that you number of subscribers unstoppably moves towards a million. And until 2323 you sure reach a billion ;)
Your episodes like this where you talk about everyday life in the future are some of the best. It’s great to talk to things like megastructures in isolation, but it really grounds things when you discuss how individuals live and work in those situations.
If you're from 2323, and you're watching this...HELLO! Glad this video survived :) Hope everyone is okay there :) I'm writing from the 21st century Philippines, 28 years old currently. And just sad that I couldn't see what life is like 300 years letter. But I still hope humanity exists and life is so much better centuries later
Cant wait to watch this one in 2323 with my self replicating nanobots giving me the 10,000 complete iteration of myself and commenting, only 2000s lifeforms remember this banger 😂
Loved the storytelling and world building of this episode. Big and creative in a way only you can be. Congrats on reaching Episode 400! Here is to 400 more!❤
Hell, can you please do more storytime style entries? I love the regular content immensely, don't get me wrong, but you're painting such impressive scenes in my head! I will buy a book from you now xD
It was really great frameworking. Minus dialogue, it read like the first chapter of an exciting book. And of course, by necessity, more exposition than demonstration
I do miss "the traveler" stories from the early outward bound series, and the crew of Unity from the early life in a space colony series. I'm not sure if the story is vague enough that we can just imagine ourselves being there, or if it is just short enough snip-its that we can fill in the rest with our own ideas based on our experiences. I also do agree it's a nice fresh slate without plot contrivances or evershifting clark-tech magic just to progress a storyline. maybe someday, the SFIA plot ideas may be considered the 'new steampunk era' of a sort, with no FTL or unobtanium, just good old-fashioned reaction drives and sub-light travel.
@@charlesmcdowell9436 is it read by an AI, did you hire a voice actor, or is that your own voice? Leaning toward ai because of how it paused at commas. Andit mispronounced cradling. As for the writing, it's uninspired. Of course that's based on the prologue alone. Got nothing else to do so I'll listen as long as i can before giving up. I have not read widely in sci fi books, so my frame of reference is limited, but my main criticism of the prologue is that it feels like a 4 year old smashing two action figures together. It failed to make an impact and sounded like it was trying to copy a sci fi battle the author had seen but not understood what had made it exciting. It was also very bare bones in how it described the scene, making it easy to tune out and drift off. Lots of questions could be asked, like why the captain would have to stay with the ship while everyone else could make it off, why they decided to fire everything, why they didn't detect the object until seconds before impact, and the almost half dozen maybe more references to the Nexus, which came across like cheap advertising, just telling me what the author subconsciously thinks is important, but neglected to convince me, and violating the "show don't tell " rule of exposition. What i mean by my frame of reference -- you should buy The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund, which has genuinely exciting space combat and exposition. Worth drawing inspiration from. The interpersonal storytelling was better, primarily in the structure. Not terribly cringe in the narration though the dialogue frequently made me roll my eyes. That might be because i have very little interest in teenage high school drama stories and, well, that's pretty much ALL you've got in the first video. The plot beans down as follows: - dad dies due to unknown object - boy talks to mom about dad and schoolwork - boy encounters bully. - girlfriend intervenes - boy casually talks to girlfriend - boy gets beaten up by bully - girlfriend and mom praise/feel bad for him, and he feels more confident Super low stakes and scope. Between the television adaptation of the shannara chronicles and Lord of the Rings, you're making the former. If you want to make an unserious work of art, establish a teenage love triangle from the get go. Your epic adventure will be contracted down to that one dimensional aspect and cease to be epic. As for characterization, it's pretty weak. I highly recommend you listen to The Critical Drinker's video "The Drinker Fixes:Rey/Luke Skywalker" And then listen to this video by Isaac again and then your own video. You'll see that you're missing a lot that you could easily provide to make your characters more compelling. So far i know the boy is weak, in high school, bullied, got a not-girlfriend girlfriend, likes space, wants to be a pilot, and maybe doesn't know much about his mom's past or interests 🤷. The girlfriend used to date his bully, she's impressed The boy stood up to him, she gets in the face of the bully and plays rugby, so she's mannish. All we know about mom despite that you introduced her first is that are retained some Astronomy knowledge from school because her husband would talk about it. We know hardly anything else about her. Your narrative is third person. You can tell us the mindset of characters without them having to say it, although since that easily becomes a tell don't show violation, you might just have to let some things be unsaid on the moment id it comes across wooden. You want a great example of agar I'm talking about? Watch the first 20 minutes of the absolutely horrible fan made Maximum Ride movie.
This was a GREAT episode, and definitely one of my favorites in a while! I appreciated the narrative structure here--that was quite entertaining and fascinating. I'm constantly amazed how you are always so creative with the scenarios you can think up, especially with these types of episodes. It definitely gives me something to think about for my writing (I got a new idea right now from Cameron's family ranch, actually!)! :D Here's to another 400 episodes, Isaac, and I will see you for the livestream on Sunday!
2323: I live on a minor unnamed planet out in the Kuiper belt. I had moved to Mars in the late 2050s or early 2060s (I built a hab in 56, but didn't move in outside of virtual visits via remote controlled Android until 2063) after living on an Earth-Mars cycler as the mechanic for three loops. Shortly after that I had a genetically optimized clone made, had myself optimized, and raised my son as a single father. Though he did have an android nanny, so that might not count. But when, in the 2280s Mars became far too urbanized for my tastes, I bought a small rotating hab that used to be a mine out in the Kuiper Belt and moved out there. I still tune into Isaac Author's weekly broadcasts, though, and have all of them downloaded into my station's library along with lectures on every subject that interests me.
Your 2050 estimate is too optimistic. I be the first self sustaining settlement (not dependent on earth supplies) will be post 2070. Post 2150 if blackrock wins and enslaves a generation
I love this channel it is by far my favorite! I’ve learned so much over the years and always look forward to new episodes and always rewatch older ones. As someone who enjoys content like this it is truly a blessing to behold what comes into fruition every week! Thank you Isaac Happy 400th and cheers 🍻 to 400+ more🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🤘
There will come a time when the videos by Isaac will be made into a fully fleshed-out movie by AI. Next will come the time when inhabitable virtual worlds will automatically be made to match a specific episode. Isaac will then not be predicting the future, but *creating* the future.
thank you mr. arthur i remember requesting this a few months ago and couldn’t wait until i saw this in my recommended. this is exactly how i envisioned it. the individual lives you created is perfect. bravo!
That calorie dense greenhouse that Cameron's family runs is exactly what I'm looking forward to constructing. I have hardly ever heard anything like it mentioned except on this channel. You'd think that U.S. farming communities would be discussing that kind of thing by now, but I've not heard a single peep from Texas to Missouri to Wyoming.. I hope to get started on designing and property acquisition in the next decade, and getting to prototyping within two decades. Building the supporting businesses to fund the project will take some time.
Just build a normal greenhouse quonset and place reflective mirrors around it to amplify the amount of light hitting the plastic because it will scatter it inside so it’s indirect light, the direction it comes in doesn’t matter quite so much. This will do for an initial test. Don’t forget your control (Quonset with no mirrors) and standard (plants in and same location with no greenhouse structures, and with and without sprinklers). Publish your results and make UA-cam shorts. As for sustainability, consider making that plants be flowers that you can then sell. That also allows you to compare the profitability of the greenhouses for extra data points. After this branch out into crops. Suggest lettuce and celery, not potatoes and corn right away)
You're forgetting livestock. Our livestock burns enormous numbers of calories keeping warm in winter and looses weight to hot summer days. How much more efficient would they be if they never suffered extreme temperatures... how much less fuel would you burn if you didn't have to put up hay... the climate control could greatly shrink the heavy farming equipment industry.
These greenhouses are not just for plants and crops. They can house fish hatcheries, aquaponics, meat herds, tropical fruits.. position your structure at the currect depth, with appropriate thermal control and you can house any environment you want. The issue is that some few people have done tropical greenhouses on a small scale and make bank on it, but their produce is not something the average person can afford escept as a treat. My goal is scale. This needs to be a superior method of large scale farming, and doable on a large scale. Right now, I know of no system that can handle a herd of cattle.. I aim to change that, if nobody does it first.
Hey, I was the one spreading this kind of story of mine on Wattpad called "Life in the next 5 Centuries" I published it on Nov 2022 and I start spreading this idea in the comments section. I'm happy to see a video like his existing now. I'm not a big fan being responsible of being a fame and I like someone can do that for me and they get all the credits. My story is mostly about longevity and assisted reproductive technology. I made that story to focus away this overrated predictions about robots, AI, and flying cars.
The bit about cells and DNA being a proof of concept for self replicating nanobots points to an underrated and underdiscussed revolution in science that's happening right now, in the form of microbiology, both medical and environmental, and biomolecular science. Rather than creating inorganic nanites, DNA nanostructures and deisgner proteins and synthetic cells could be the way of the future. But as a microbiologist I am biased XD
we will probably have modified organic nanides before we have fully synthetic ones but it's unlikely that biology is the global maxium of micro/nanoassembly
Episode 400 :) it’s incredible, just how long and enduring your creativity, and the well-meaningness and growth of the community endures - this channel really is something special - congratulations, SFIA, I hope you make it to 2323 with the rest of us ♥️
Ever considered a video on exotic or even hypothetical matter? Orionsarm had magnetic monopoles and a slew of technologies derived from them, like reactors that caused baryon decay of ionized matter to produce energy.
We have another called Upcoming Advances in Material Science ua-cam.com/video/cPCmrNAZnHE/v-deo.html We've considered more but it's been on the backburner for a while, I probably should add it to the image poll list.
@@isaacarthurSFIA yea, that’s more along the lines of magnetic monopoles. I just really enjoyed your video on dark matter, which was actually a bit more expansive than the Orionsarm website was
@@isaacarthurSFIA Can you look in to the US military's claims of having created a 'nano-aluminum' that perfectly converts water to hydrogen at 100% efficiency with no added energy, which supposedly works in even the dirtiest water?
While I'm not generally a fan of 'shorts' the way the channel has been doing them I see it as a positive contribution. Give potential new members a little glimpse at something impressive or fascinating and hope they decide to check out a full episode. Given the weight they have in the algo at the moment, its at worse a necessary evil, but I think its being used in a constructive way.
Congrats on the milestone! You're not wrong about the challenges when it comes to contemplating life that far out. Whenever I'm doing stories on the subject I swear I spend easily as much time researching and planning as I do getting words down, if not more.
I don't think I'll be alive in 2061, let alone in 2323. I was born in 1981, and unless my conscience is transferred to a computer or robot, I won't make it.
It would be very funny if Issac, who throughout this whole episode is like "I don't know the future, I am essentially guessing. I am prepared to be wildly off," is just dead on.
If I were that last guy, I would have left a copy, and instructions to "revive" if a reply was not received, vis-à-vis my safe arrival and run on the colony ship, by a certain date. Not leaving a copy behind is one thing, but jumping without a safety line seems foolhardy to me.
Well if any of us are still around by then, I think we should get together and make plans in 2323 to have a viewing party of this video and see how well it held up. Potluck!
one thing that stands out to me, and that I don't know if it will be true, is that the worldbuilding in these implies the future will have a high demand for human labour
That's quite the optimistic outlook... feels to me like, given our current path, 100 years from now will see the last years of our species. Just feels like the last remnants of our species will be in their final struggles, than it does that we will be well on our way to a better, more prosperous society.
And I plan on continuing to support your content until they put me to bed with a shovel Issac. Never stop, I have been watching for so long I cannot imagine not getting excited for Thursdays with you.
I know you previously said, answering to people asking you write novels, that you weren't sure if you knew how to create good stories. Hearing this episode, I think you should reconsider that opinion about yourself. You just wrote the synopsis of not one but seven very interesting story concepts, and I would pay money to read those in a full fledge novel or compilation of short stories. Then again, you do what you want to do dear sir! Thank you for this video.
Wow! Episode 400! I found your channel around episode 100. Seems like yesterday. Congratulations and looking forward to seeing your 1000th show air. It'll probably be about some great new invention of science that hasn't even been thought of yet!
I think it far more likely rather than cities going up, they’ll go down instead. Whether because of climate change hot or cold, solar flares etc going underground seems to a solution. Think of a field growing crops that has thirty levels but only approx a 1/30 footprint. Jobs would be minimal, AI and robots would do most of the hard graft. There would be an expectation to work/contribute but not essential when you have free energy, housing/food. Likely ‘class’ would be mostly middle class with only a very small elite group. The hole in this story is sperm count is rapidly declining. By 2323 I’d expect tight population control, DNA sequencing for babies grown in tanks - possibly the only way to breed. I think it obvious like an avatar you can create designer kids, bad genes would be removed and combined with advances in medicine would mean lives well into the 120s on average if not more. Earth would likely be split into continents, countries would be abolished. Probably only two or three languages. Colonies on various planets and moons, as well as mining (not on Earth) to be able to sustain civilisation. The chances are probably higher we won’t get that far, natural disasters or man made viruses or just a regular nuclear Armageddon. If nothing too tragic happens, the total population left may be only less than a few billion. Then there’s aliens - well either they massively advance our civilisation in a short window or equally wipe us out within months.
This fucking video is the Shit!! My kids and I spent the evening at bedtime listening to this video than spent another 3 hours just talking about what we would do if we had access to all of this tech today. Than they were cranky in the morning cuz they didn't get enough sleep that night. Thanks for making my kids fall asleep in class Isaac. Geeze!! 😅
Sounded horrifying. One thing Isaac doesn’t do here, which he has done elsewhere, is acknowledge the copy versus cut and paste issue of mind transference. Gary Googolson dot example, in my view, represents a person who had their brain hijacked by a computer program and never got to live a normal life, falsely believing that he was an AI and having phantom memories implanted into him. And this AI then leads him to commit suicide. What would be an interesting question from a Christian philosophy standpoint which Isaac doesn’t get into, is whether the person who was lab grown and invaded by an AI was ever really free, and if he would go to heaven because he was providentially hindered from receiving any ordinary means of grace.
@@cosmictreason2242 You're welcome to interpret it that way, these guys aren't meant to be heroes just thought-stimulating vignettes on differences that the future might have, not necessarily positive or negative, but that's not the written intent with Gary. He wouldn't be viewing it as suicide but a life-threatening gamble to save friends and an endangered colony ship full of thousands, if it kills him and replaces him with a copy that has all his same personality and knowledge to help them, he'd view it as a regrettable but acceptable outcome as the character is supposed to be illustrating the AI who exemplifies humanity in an effort to strive to be one, and he explicitly is supposed to be on the fence on if this sort of transfer is imperiling his life or identity. He is envisioned as transfering his brain one bit at a time from digital to an interwoven bunch of artificially grown neurons, he's not copied on some vegetized human, the character is loosely built off a mix of pinochio, Data from TNG, and the bicentennial man, he'd find body-snatching someone horrifying, but I'd also imagine many folks would worry that was what he'd done and could potentially be right too. But then they might assume the AI transferred onto the existing human eventually eroded and the human emerged. Again it's meant to stimulate thought not illustrate utopia :)
@@isaacarthurSFIA and I do appreciate it. My explicitly theological pondering is an extrapolation from what I’ve gleaned from your videos and considered in light of mind-body dualism. While I gather that you’re not Christian and your decision to avoid vague judgments on different religious views is deliberate, I had you pegged early on as someone who had a catholic background, which was at least half right. I enjoyed a bit of self satisfaction when you revealed the details more recently 😁. I could tell because some of the implicit assumptions, and considerations, that you would make are absent from many nonchristian futurists or science popularizers (eg Tyson, Kaku, Krauss, Sagan). I very much appreciate that you don’t simply put forth an uncritical Roddenbery-esque humanist materialist presumptiveness about the future. It makes your content that much more valuable because it is deeper, and also not stereotypically naive. I enjoy taking what you’ve put out and filling in the details to argue for my specifically Christian worldview on these topics (eg your Fermi paradox series make good supplementary arguments for the nonexistence of aliens). I am clear on what you believe and wouldn’t/don’t put words in your mouth. I know from before that your basic position is that re mind uploading, the copy of Gary that gets to the sleeper ship is “really him,” by any meaningful measurement. Whereas regarding continuity of consciousness, I think both in a purely materialistic universe and in a standard dualistic universe (unless one envisions that souls are entangled with the brain and can follow the matter stream), the Gary back at Sol would have biologically died and not wake up 60+ years later on the sleeper ship. This is the kind of interesting stuff that I think you could still get away with talking about without offending people: how souls would interplay with matter, regarding uploading and consciousness. Granting for the sake of argument their existence. Your discussion about the ship of Theseus (perhaps not by name) regarding changing your brain into nanites is a persuasive argument, and it raises the question of whether or not people WOULD, in fact, maintain continuity of consciousness if they did a gradual conversion method. What if they began to show cognitive decline the greater the percentage of their brain was nanites, or specifically some portions of it resisted conversion? It would represent a possible empirical test for the existence of the soul, since if mind uploading, brain replacement with nanites, or thawing frozen people never resulted in a functioning person, one might have an inductive argument, that it’s because there is now no soul present. If teleportation Star Trek style only produced lifeless corpses, otherwise identical to the original, that would also do it, but that’s nigh impossible technologically as you’ve discussed, but freezing and thawing isn’t and synthetic brains aren’t. So it raises interesting metaphysical questions. If these things DID work, it would represent either that the universe is purely material, or, less likely but presumably possible (in light of Christian resurrection necessarily involving separating the conscious mind from the body and reuniting it at a later date, well after physical death), perhaps immaterial souls are mysteriously entangled with the body and if the body is reactivated or copied, the soul moves with it. Anyway, I didn’t think you were writing it as a horror story, that is my personal interpretation but I think it’s a valid one worth offering others for consideration, just like you say that the goal is to provoke thought. Definitely weren’t impugning you so if it sounded very negative, I’ll just point out that I wasn’t being emotional 🙂. Thanks for always being very thoughtful in your approach to the subjects you talk about. Regarding faith (it’s not contrary to reason), I don’t know if you are aware of the Christian astrophysicists Jason Lisle, Russel Humphreys, or Danny Faulkner, but I’d encourage you to look them up. Faulkner’s passionate argumentation against flat earthism, being a creationist, is very interesting. Lisle and Humphreys each have developed relativity-based technical proposals for distant starlight in a young universe. I think if you reached out just in your private capacity for discussion, Jason would be the most eager to talk to you. The guy is brilliant but also a lecturer. Even if you remain unconvinced of either their cosmology or theology, it would be really great to know that you’d done your research. This is my effort to give you something, since you’ve given so much. 😊
@@cosmictreason2242 Continuity of Consciousness is one of those tricky ones that I intentionally avoid having an official opinion on, I don't feel a compelling case can be made for any of the major camps even if I tend to default to John Locke's. We've discussed the Ship of Theseus argument more and explicitly elsewhere, a lot of those are good points and some maybe should have been raised in the episode too but time constraints often limit these things. I'm familiar with Faulkner's commentary on flat earth, which was quite interesting, and Humphreys of course, I find his starlight age speculations uncompelling, and will leave it at that.
We have robot vacuums, mowers, and tons of smart devices, it may not be the Jetsons, which was never presented as a realistic future, but what we got even just half a century later is amazing, so three more centuries is likely to be even better
it is nice to see a story where multiple future options exist at the same time in the same place, it's more organic than the monolithic cultures I see in SciFi so often. Also as I mentioned in the past, I highly doubt everyone would want the same exact future whatever-tech, some would opt for it while others would want to wait it out a bit, and others would nope-out of it. just look at what we have today, does everyone use earbuds, no, some use headphones while others chose not to listen to music when away from the home/office speakers. I suspect eye and ear implants will be the same way for a long while (especially so long as re-growing amputated nerve endings isn't reliably a thing). you can't take some skin from your elbow and implant it into your retina and expect the touch and temperature nerve endings to morph into rod and cone cells, it doesn't work like that, not to say sensitivity and resolution of the implant while getting heat/pressure/pain/etc connections to line up correctly when just mashing nerve bundle ends together. it will take a lot of work, and for some "good enough" may not be good enough. anyway, it's nice to see a mixed variety of augmentation/uplifting in a story.
. One thing Isaac doesn’t do here, which he has done elsewhere, is acknowledge the copy versus cut and paste issue of mind transference. Gary Googolson dot example, in my view, represents a person who had their brain hijacked by a computer program and never got to live a normal life, falsely believing that he was an AI and having phantom memories implanted into him. And this AI then leads him to commit suicide. What would be an interesting question from a Christian philosophy standpoint which Isaac doesn’t get into, is whether the person who was lab grown and invaded by an AI was ever really free, and if he would go to heaven because he was providentially hindered from receiving any ordinary means of grace.
@@cosmictreason2242 I think Issac got as close as he is willing to without getting into specific theologies with that last asteroid colony episode or a few back (artificial afterlives), they will find out at the end of time the natural way when the computers stop and they pass on. asking if an uplifted mind has a spirit instead of just the organic body it was copied from isn't that removed from asking if an artificial sentient being has a spirit if they never had an organic body. everyone will have their own individual beliefs and they likely will not be the same. maybe in the end, it matters not what happens at the end, it's the improvements and efforts made here and now that matter anyway.
I've finally started reading the Strugatski Brothers' _Noon_ cycle, downloaded 11 volumes into my portal microcomputer, and of course I'm back on SFIA, too. - Adûnâi
I very much appreciate the effort made to not have the outtro music be several times louder than the rest of the video! ❤ Genuinely, you have my heartfelt gratitude as some previous episodes were thoroughly jarring at the ends. Here's to another 400 wonderful episodes! 🎉🎉🎉
No matter how the future is spun, no matter how many years we look out, no matter how different isolated populations may be, we’ll still be, no matter when or where, ‘only human after all’.
Fantastic UA-cam channel, congratulations! I have no idea if immortality nano-bots are feasible, but I watched a few episodes of that zombie series The Walking Dead and it occurred to me that the infection seems to violate physical laws if it was a biological agent, but it fits the idea of a prototype nanobot with defective firmware getting loose and infecting everyone so it keeps you alive, but only in a fashion.
When I saw you mention Fido at the start of the episode, I thought you were gonna talk about furries. Most sci-fi writers and thinkers focus on improvements to math and engineering, while ignoring biology Those which do consider bioscience only do so to say medicine has gotten better and maybe people will live longer (though a surprising amount of space opera still features the classic 80-year expiration date). But let's be real. When you get the kind of technology that lets you sculpt yourself like a greek god, you'll also be able to deck yourself out in a winter coat, complete with ears and tail. A lot of people would, too! Maybe not most, but a few million which will grow with the fashion. We probably could already do it by dissolving the cells out of donor tissue to collect the extracellular scaffold, and then reseeding it with animal cells that had been genetically modified with the MHC alleles of the recipient. Congrats on your 400th episode, man. Reruns of your show are my favorite listening material for late night gaming
As a child, 60+ years ago, I imagined a 21st Century world resembling the Jetsons scenario, with the characters living all manner of giant skyscrapers, commuting in flying cars, and using other fantastical labour saving machines to do the housework. Now we've arrived at that future time, and modern cities don't actually look much different from what they were then. Yes, there are a few more eccentrically imagined buildings, like the Burj Khalifa, but they're still made from the same steel, concrete and glass. And they are still built and serviced by people who will never be able to afford to live in them, much like Manhattan or Singapore today. Despite improvements in the lives of the under-classes, the inequality gap has massively increased. Worse still, the damage to the ecosystems upon which all life depends is now virtually irreversible and about plunge us into a global collapse. While the really significant changes over those 60 years, have been to the natural environment, we humans have made substantial progress with nanotechnology, computers and communications, way beyond anything 1950's science fiction writer Isaac Asimov imagined in his 'Foundation' series, set 10,000 years in the future. But for all of our tinkering at the edges of biotechnology and cybernetics, we haven't been able to solve many of the same problems that the Romans wrestled with 2000 years ago. For me, 2323, as imagined here, looks utterly dystopian. I can't imagine anything more depressing than living on a planet inhabited by 100 billion immortal members of the same species, jammed into endless vertical towers, performing who knows what pointless 'make-work' jobs for hundreds of years, in a sickening parody of our 21st century malaise. It's like a gigantic petri dish filled with bacteria.
But we’d be a post-scarcity civilization. No poverty, war or disease. We would have taken care of all of that. You and I must have very different definitions of a dystopia.
400 episodes.... Wow. That's a lot of content reminding me I was born WAY too early. Let's hope reincarnation is real, or that cryogenics make some huge leaps forward real quick.
I am currently 18, if I don't die from something random in the next 50-60 years, what exactly are my chances to extend my lifespan using technology from the 2070s?
@@cdemr Just look at how fast AI is moving these days. Some people say we'll have AGI in 18 months (I think it's more like 5 years away). Naturally, once you have AGI a lot of impossible problems suddenly become very possible, including life extension. Simply spin up 1000 instances of GPT-7, give them a lab and tell them to conquer death. Then just sit back and enjoy the show.
Its crazy to think that all of use even our Parents (im 26 Parents are 59 and 57) and children will be considered the oldest of old farts by then. Maybe will ee bunch into century generations by that point onto of everything. "We're apart of the same Century" i think that hits
Reincarnation is not, resurrection is, but you have to make a timely appeal to the Supplier and make sure to meet his qualifications. For example, He frowns upon bribery. To receive eternal life, you must publicly and in a binding contractual agreement admit your own inability to save yourself and that you don’t deserve what he offers you. In a way, it’s the easiest thing in the world. But for prideful men, it’s the hardest thing in the world
This is not a criticism - far from it. But I am beginning to spot the difference between human and A.I. generated art. A.I. art is TOO perfect. Flawless, unique and all round - just TOO pretty.
Once you work out the kinks, anyway. The uncanny valley look of no less than seven fingers on each hand and facial feature proportions can be a bit off-putting.
I would disagree with the too good statement. The hands look mangled, proportions looks a little off, transitions between foreground objects and background, that aren’t harsh lines (like hair) are washed out or look like bad photoshop, and coloring doesn’t look like it was made with tools at all. And using AI generated images is something I would actually criticize, considering how much it screws over actual artists.
Wow, my mid is officially blown. I just stumbled across this video luckily. What an incredible channel. Why aren't there millions of subs? Just brilliant.
I like that suburban communities still exist in this scenario, as most people typically predict that the future will be one of vast megacities but in reality we're already seeing the early decline of cities. Technology is allowing more and more people to work from home and automation will further devalue living in a city. It makes much more sense that within the next 300 years instead of cyberpunk mega cities, a network of endless suburburban communities will stretch across the United States (I'm American so that's what I'm predicting.) I believe the 100 billion population number is completely ludicrous, instead population will fluctuate based upon factors we haven't even considered yet. Anyways. You can imagine that this vast interconnected suburban landscape is dotted by areas of dilapidation; entire neighborhoods, cities, and other once populated areas have given way to the natural world. During times of population growth they are redeveloped, but during times of population decrease more and more regions depopulate and are abandoned, and so the cycle repeats.
Just found your channel and I am now obsessed and fascinated with your videos. I'll be binge watching you!! You gained a new subscriber today! Can't wait to see what more your channel brings to me!! I absolutely loved this story. And the visual effects go so perfectly. Amazing job!! ❤️❤️
Imagine waking up in 2323 after being "frozen" for centuries to a wonderland of technology, run by a repressive totalitarian authoritarian government that none can escape. Time travel can suck after all.
Been here for years, been watching your videos since high school and am now working in the field of nuclear energy, thank you Isaac for all you've done.
I was about to leave a snarky comment how our civilization won't even survive the Industrial Age Collapse but I have too much respect Isaac. In fact let his vision come through than whatever doom and gloom is taking over me.
Truth is we don’t know so any alternative future is valid and only disproved by time getting there eventually. I think we are cooked but I enjoy what if speculative fuction
I have been looking forward to this video for a while! I found it interesting how much the video dealt with transhumanism. Individuals being for, against or adapting certain changes or being against some.
He left some discussion out. One thing Isaac doesn’t do here, which he has done elsewhere, is acknowledge the copy versus cut and paste issue of mind transference. Gary Googolson dot example, in my view, represents a person who had their brain hijacked by a computer program and never got to live a normal life, falsely believing that he was an AI and having phantom memories implanted into him. And this AI then leads him to commit suicide. What would be an interesting question from a Christian philosophy standpoint which Isaac doesn’t get into, is whether the person who was lab grown and invaded by an AI was ever really free, and if he would go to heaven because he was providentially hindered from receiving any ordinary means of grace.
We're kind of just about on the forefront of that, now, with mind reading tech. And one of the biggest hindrances to that is going to be the concept of privacy, which gets completely ignored, here. Also, vice versa to the AI taking over a person- the people uploading themselves into computers. Does that hinder their ability to function mentally or emotionally? Are those technically just copies of people, or actual people? Is the energy consumption worth keeping those individuals running? How often to they need to be re-copied to new hardware in order to continue to survive?
@@MrChristianDT if you can find the thread where Isaac replied to my comment of the above, there is more treatment of TBD subject like what you’re bringing up
Love your narrative story telling. Except the part about nanobot updates being installed without rigorous testing. One never does that on Earth, why would a colony ship allow it for ANY critical system? Especially since all systems need to be fully operational to keep the passengers and crew alive.
5:10 I actually more gravely fear a controlled and aligned homicidal A.I. than an uncontrolled and unaligned homicidal A.I. Also, Gary is definitely the MVP of this episode. Sacrifices the lifestyle he wants to help his friends, but does so not because they put upon him, but for his own purpose. Can he fix the nanobots, or will they have to use Fido's nanobots... with Fido's nanobots being the only ones working anymore, will they have to use Fido's DNA to fix everyone else? Will the humans be turned into a race of werewolves for having to use the Frankensteined DNA of a mutated Dog to actually repair themselves, or will they work out the kinks in the original nanobots? Will Gary be able to make himself a new human body? I know this is really just a vignette of different characters who all just connect to each other in slightly under 7 degrees of separation. But the last 3 seem to be an intrepid trio of misfits going on a great adventure together...
Poverty is relative. There will likely still be the divide between the rich and the poor, but the rich of today would happily give up everything to be the poverty stricken of the future.
@@MrNote-lz7lh modern slum is generally worse than medieval village tho Imagine what kinda industrial polutant future human can make Imagine ultra cancer aids
I really hope curing aging will become available this century for at least the same price as cryo freezing yourself. We can already do it to mice so fingers crossed
I am aware it is wishful thinking on my part but I cannot overstate how much of a blessing it would be to know technology could see me witness the amazing future humanity could build Even a hard-cap of 500 years would be great, assuming we don't nuke ourselves we could get up to a whole lot and even augmented i'd have trouble seeing it all, spreading life to the stars in a much more official way would be something great to be a part of
It will be way more painful than we could think, and we'll become unable to imagine today's way of thinking without disgust because of all the changes But life will be worth itself, because nothing else is.
@@Слышьты-ф4ю To be honest I already can't stand todays way of thinking so not much changes for me there But definitely it will be a painful transition for many, many reasons.
Nuking would probably accelerate us in the long term because it would present a real problem so we don’t invent ones like beer bugs and ESG. If we experienced a global Marxist takeover it would probably retard our development by 1500 years but we’d get into space eventually regardless, because the efficient people working in the margins would still be making progress
Love how IA paints the future as bright and full of promise Rather than dystopian and dark . I was watching the remake of V series and wonder how ot would be if they came to earth in 2323 with more than a 100 billion people. I wish they would make an I robot 2 in the yr 2350. Awesome video and congratulations.
Years of discussing and pondering i supposr.usually just sit down and start typing, and a few hours later the draft is ready, sometimes I outline or restart
@@JoshSmith-fr6fx I think the usual advice everyone gives is if the voice bugs you turn it down a bit and flip on the captions, and after a few episodes you won't even notice it anymore.
Uncanny timing: The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration certified 2 flying cars within the last week. If you think I'm kidding, look up "Alef Model A" and "Aska A5". More importantly, congratulations on your 400th episode! Here's to another hundred and beyond.
Disappointed that Capitalism still exists, and would have thought that and money would be mostly done away with when technology advanced enough to solve critical scarcities or at the very least a new more egalitarian economic system would have developed focused on: The human condition, resources and natural ecosystems/wildlife. - Looks like civilization has yet to take its next evolutionary step.
Capitalism have been drastically improving people lives since its inception. No reason for it to stop or die down now just because it improves technology enough to solve critical scarcity.
This episode manages to make the setting interesting and likeable. I get the impression that there are dark tones in this world (what is good, since there are them in our world and any setting too bright sounds fake) and the choice to focus in the good aspect of things is part of what makes this world sound nice. On the same time, wars and deeply disturbing turning points in morality are not the prevalent aspect in daily lives of most people. Perhaps they have never been. Even warriors, living in a time of wars, will expend more time eating, talking, and walking from a place to another than in the heat of battle, I suppose. Law and legal conflicts play a big part of that setting, that called my attention. Possibly because legal system in my own county nowadays has completely abandoned normality and we are for all practical purposed living under a autocratic rule of judges. But then, of course, US citizens think legal systems as something based in tribunals, where the last word is supposed to come mostly from normal people. Judges only shape things decided by the people (not completely, not every time, I bet, but in a far larger degree than here. Where the final decision almost always comes from the Judge and was until recently supposed to be based in laws. Not _ideally_ the whims of individual judges, like it is now, but also not the will of common people). I imagine humanity is this near futuristic setting did something to avoid the Autocracy of Judges, and any other kind of tyranny of "specialists". Scientists and "scientists" both had to settle for share power with their fellow citizens as citizens, instead of rule by authority of rank. And by fear. The normal people must have abandoned in some degree the crave for perfection. Cosmic Justice. Absolute Safety. Those sort of thing. Since that is the selling argument for all Totalitarian movements. Objective truth, Science, must have the last word, so e can be fair and safe, and for that to be possible we must give absolute power to those who speak with the voice of this Science. Things are again decided by vote, non-specialists get to vote, and decisions are supposed to be imperfect. But that's good enough for most. What counts as "people" is obviously the main issue now. In a way it has not been since the last nations abolished slavery, perhaps. I don't suppose having democratic and open debates around that issue can make the decisions any less terrible and cruel than what they would be if a "King Philosopher" was ruling by divine (or scientific) right. However, at least the inevitable changing nature of public opinion makes every mistake feel more ephemeral than what a single tyrant (or group of minds with a common goal and ideology) can hope to produce. I don't see this as a place for me to live, to be honest. But I see this as a good enough place where many likeable people may be living, long after I die.
I'm not at all clear what country you're talking about. The US has two other branches, the executive and legislative. But maybe you are talking about the US? I'm confused.
Thanks for the question,@@squirlmy. Yes, most countries do have 3 branches: Executive, Legislative and Judiciary. Was like that here in my country as well, in theory still is but in fact Judiciary has taken absolute power and the other 2 are not just scenography. That's a possibility for any place with Constitution, is a risk that comes with the attribution of power of interpretation of Constitution. Who has this power has the potential to "interprete" NO as YES, and ignore all restriction to his own power. In most parts it doesn't happen. Supreme Courts do try to balance their position and mediate between the different forces of society. Instead of use the infinite power they (potentially) have (or can take) to "Push History in the right direction" (quoting a Judge of our Supreme Court). The "right direction" in this case being a extremist Woke ideology. I could be wrong, but for what I see from where I am sitting the Supreme Court of US is still a Supreme Court. Three Powers still exist in US. As a fact, not mere scenography. As for the differences between my country and US, in terms of how Judiciary always worked and is supposed to work, here we never used the idea of "being judged by a jury of your equals". We have tribunals of jury, but only for 3 crimes. Generally speaking we depend a lot less on the common sense and morality of average citizens than a lot more on the opinions of specialists in Law. Judges and tribunals. (again, I could be wrong about how much your country trusts the common citizen)
I agree with you on that point, I'm fine growing old and seeing other people step way into this kind of future, my family too even. But I'm not personally in really living past my innate biological old age. It's been difficult enough for me to get to the current age I am, I take it as a badge of honor.
I am from a third world country Bangladesh. I wake up every morning knowing that the rest of the day will be extremely painful. I work 16 hours a day restlessly and barely able to pay the bills. Life for me is all but misery. Still it breaks my heart knowing that I will not be alive to see the first interstellar ship that will reach another solar system. I am eternally grateful to you Isaac, for continuing this amazing channel.
I feel so sorry for you. I am living in England and I hate to say this, but I feel very lucky to be born here. I wish that one day, your country may prosper in the future, and the living standards will increase.
But sadly, I think this might not be the case as there will always be people who only want power for themselves and keep the rest of the nation in poverty. Hell, maybe, the UK might be a hell hole in the future. Maybe, the UK becomes a dictatorship. But we will never know.
All I can hope for myself and you, is that we, and the rest of Humanity can prosper, and have a better future for us and the next generation.
I am from Bangladesh too. I live in Dhaka and I am grateful for the privileged life I have. I also took some effort to construct it in a certain way. I think mindset matters a lot. And Isaac's channel definitely is a prompt to that. Be optimistic and make small changes happen. :)
@@Jeda_TragumeeDeveloping nations will eventually become prosperous. They’re called developing for a reason.
I hope one day, your country will have everything that it needs and not only needs--but wants. I hope your country thrives, I hope all countries thrive one day. I hope all of our countries can work together and collaborate and contribute on projects! Don’t be so sure! Let hope keep getting you up in the morning❤
Yea I just want to know if there's other lifeforms too beyond our planet so I can die in peace knowing the answer. Too bad I won't live long enough to witness the first contact. Btw I'm from Meghalaya, your neighbor.
8:52 Who would've thought that the most horrifying thing 300 years from now would be that draconian homeowners associations still exist? Truly dystopian.😳
In 2323, I would definitly be the “back in my day” guy
50% of the pop may be
Nice...
You'd just be a head in a jar, that was resurrected by an AI bot. That a 5th grader summoned for a science project, who wanted to see what life was like in the pre-historic, pre-world war 3 era, pre-nuclear fall out earth, "age of war".😮
@@apricotcomputers3943 like matt groenings head museum form futurama
@@mikeohawk95 EXACTLY!!!!
In the year 2323, Isaac Arthur celebrates the release of his 2000th episode. His fans celebrate with him at a virtual party and symposium, and the comment section is filled with those who reminisce about episode 400 and how much he got right so far in the past 😊
1600 / 300 = 16 episodes every 3 years? u are not so optimistic then
@@tomsmith4542he had a bit of a Burnout and a few of the world wars in between distracted him😂
If my calculations are right, it should be episode 160000 at the current rate
@@Synchbit including the shorts?😂
We better start aging the wine
Episode *400* !!! Congratulations Isaac and the entire SFIA community!!! What an amazing channel and group of people we have supporting it. Onward to episode 500 and 1M subscribers!!
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I had to stop listening because his narration is so calming I always fall asleep. I hope when I die I wake to this man telling me my journey has just begun, grab a drink and a snack.
@@mrt1957 hahaha!! As do I my friend!! If it wasn’t for Isaac Arthur and John Michael Godier I think I don’t think I would get half the quality of rest that I do at night!
🙏💫😴🍻
@@js70371 That is a standing joke with me and John, what percentage of our audience falls asleep listening to us and whose is higher :)
One of our staff at Nebula messaged me to check if it was okay to add my show to the recommended watching fro those trying to fall asleep, in case it offended, I told him I'd been proudly curing insomnia since 2014.
Next stop, 500 million subscribers!
Here’s ‘food for thought’:
Instead of imagining possible science for future centuries, maybe we’d be smarter thinking of a way to fight for a world that gives most of the people a livable planet, food for everyone, renewable sources and greenest storages of energy, as much transparency in politics and the working of the governments as possible, least inequality possible, progressive taxes, no misogyny, no racism, no ableism, no homophobia or transphobia, no prejudices toward people different than those that represent the privileged majority, free education for everyone, free medicine for everyone, free housing, transportation and Internet for everyone, a functional infrastructure, reparations to those affected by settler-colonialism, imperialism and ‘free-trade’ capitalism (neoliberalism), least possible working hours, etc…
And when I talk about everyone, I talk about the whole world. Not only the ‘global north’.
While it’s nice daydreaming about the future, why not do it in a way that imagines a better world for everyone?
What I’m trying to say is that you can’t imagine a realistic future if you’re ignoring all the stuff that’s wrong in the present. The technical stuff isn’t the problem, nor is it a solution, as long as the overall system guiding everyone is monstrous.
We should strive for Star Trek or The Culture, not Blade Runner or Mad Max.
My favorite UA-camr.
You're like the Beethoven of UA-cam, having worked through, and overcome a not insignificant hurdle for a podcast/lecture style content creator, and create masterpieces of the art, inspire countless people, and have earned tremendous honors in your field.
why?
The League of Home Owner Associations is the most dystopian idea I've ever heard, great fiction fuel and nightmarish realistic future-reality!
There's a lot of chaos, unrest and injustice in the world, quite a lot to be upset about, and rightly so--but this channel keeps my hopes for the future alive. Thank you, Issac, and congrats on episode 400!
Fantasy and escapism.
@@NakedProphet How is it fantasy if his predictions don't violate the laws of physics? He could be wrong in his predictions but the onus is on you to explain why they are impossible.
If we are rid of prejudice or at least heavily shackle it we can go very far.
Humans are - as science has proven - inherently optimistic by default. Unfortunately reality isn't. Hence the increasing chaos and unrest.
@@jasonkinzie8835 mind uploading violates laws of physics
I need a "Day in the life of" playlist from SFIA. Episodes like this one and Ceres are my favorites.
You gave me the idea to make a C playlist of videos significant to Christian ethics and apologetics. I think I will
GODSPEEED
What a ride.... most people I talk to, don't give a shit about things you envision. Most "trolls" online can't think beyond their fancy cars or the latest fashion trends. I am very happy to see that you number of subscribers unstoppably moves towards a million. And until 2323 you sure reach a billion ;)
Episode 400?! Didn't we just congratulate you for episode 300?
Well done Isaac, keep up the fantastic work - ❤
just means we are all getting old together
@@oldkid8811getting older is preferable to the alternative, I always say.
@@jasonGamesMasternot for much longer...
@@oldkid8811 lmao shhh
Your episodes like this where you talk about everyday life in the future are some of the best. It’s great to talk to things like megastructures in isolation, but it really grounds things when you discuss how individuals live and work in those situations.
The fact that they live in an HOA makes this a dystopia.
If you're from 2323, and you're watching this...HELLO! Glad this video survived :) Hope everyone is okay there :) I'm writing from the 21st century Philippines, 28 years old currently. And just sad that I couldn't see what life is like 300 years letter. But I still hope humanity exists and life is so much better centuries later
Episode 400 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉, I can't wait for what's in store for me this Arthursday😅
Is it really? Wow I’m impressed I though5 I was a real fan then you came along
400!? Gosh, I just love it. I've been here since almost the beginning and I love that there is always something new to learn.
St Arthur bless us all
A lot of this is unworkable and crazy 😅
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Cant wait to watch this one in 2323 with my self replicating nanobots giving me the 10,000 complete iteration of myself and commenting, only 2000s lifeforms remember this banger 😂
Loved the storytelling and world building of this episode. Big and creative in a way only you can be.
Congrats on reaching Episode 400! Here is to 400 more!❤
Here's to watching episode #40400, 400 years from now!
@@benjigeez who needs world anvil when you can just listen to Isaac’s library?
After all these years, these videos remain my most consistent source of hope, awe and inspiration. Cheers and thank you, Isaac 🫡 🍻
Hell, can you please do more storytime style entries?
I love the regular content immensely, don't get me wrong, but you're painting such impressive scenes in my head!
I will buy a book from you now xD
It was really great frameworking. Minus dialogue, it read like the first chapter of an exciting book. And of course, by necessity, more exposition than demonstration
I do miss "the traveler" stories from the early outward bound series, and the crew of Unity from the early life in a space colony series. I'm not sure if the story is vague enough that we can just imagine ourselves being there, or if it is just short enough snip-its that we can fill in the rest with our own ideas based on our experiences. I also do agree it's a nice fresh slate without plot contrivances or evershifting clark-tech magic just to progress a storyline. maybe someday, the SFIA plot ideas may be considered the 'new steampunk era' of a sort, with no FTL or unobtanium, just good old-fashioned reaction drives and sub-light travel.
@@Zarcondeegrissom clarkepunk
I'm into this type of stuff, too. Check out my book and let me know how I'm doing.
@@charlesmcdowell9436 is it read by an AI, did you hire a voice actor, or is that your own voice? Leaning toward ai because of how it paused at commas. Andit mispronounced cradling. As for the writing, it's uninspired. Of course that's based on the prologue alone. Got nothing else to do so I'll listen as long as i can before giving up.
I have not read widely in sci fi books, so my frame of reference is limited, but my main criticism of the prologue is that it feels like a 4 year old smashing two action figures together. It failed to make an impact and sounded like it was trying to copy a sci fi battle the author had seen but not understood what had made it exciting. It was also very bare bones in how it described the scene, making it easy to tune out and drift off. Lots of questions could be asked, like why the captain would have to stay with the ship while everyone else could make it off, why they decided to fire everything, why they didn't detect the object until seconds before impact, and the almost half dozen maybe more references to the Nexus, which came across like cheap advertising, just telling me what the author subconsciously thinks is important, but neglected to convince me, and violating the "show don't tell " rule of exposition. What i mean by my frame of reference -- you should buy The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund, which has genuinely exciting space combat and exposition. Worth drawing inspiration from.
The interpersonal storytelling was better, primarily in the structure. Not terribly cringe in the narration though the dialogue frequently made me roll my eyes. That might be because i have very little interest in teenage high school drama stories and, well, that's pretty much ALL you've got in the first video. The plot beans down as follows:
- dad dies due to unknown object
- boy talks to mom about dad and schoolwork
- boy encounters bully.
- girlfriend intervenes
- boy casually talks to girlfriend
- boy gets beaten up by bully
- girlfriend and mom praise/feel bad for him, and he feels more confident
Super low stakes and scope. Between the television adaptation of the shannara chronicles and Lord of the Rings, you're making the former. If you want to make an unserious work of art, establish a teenage love triangle from the get go. Your epic adventure will be contracted down to that one dimensional aspect and cease to be epic.
As for characterization, it's pretty weak. I highly recommend you listen to The Critical Drinker's video "The Drinker Fixes:Rey/Luke Skywalker" And then listen to this video by Isaac again and then your own video. You'll see that you're missing a lot that you could easily provide to make your characters more compelling. So far i know the boy is weak, in high school, bullied, got a not-girlfriend girlfriend, likes space, wants to be a pilot, and maybe doesn't know much about his mom's past or interests 🤷. The girlfriend used to date his bully, she's impressed The boy stood up to him, she gets in the face of the bully and plays rugby, so she's mannish. All we know about mom despite that you introduced her first is that are retained some Astronomy knowledge from school because her husband would talk about it. We know hardly anything else about her. Your narrative is third person. You can tell us the mindset of characters without them having to say it, although since that easily becomes a tell don't show violation, you might just have to let some things be unsaid on the moment id it comes across wooden. You want a great example of agar I'm talking about? Watch the first 20 minutes of the absolutely horrible fan made Maximum Ride movie.
This was a GREAT episode, and definitely one of my favorites in a while! I appreciated the narrative structure here--that was quite entertaining and fascinating. I'm constantly amazed how you are always so creative with the scenarios you can think up, especially with these types of episodes. It definitely gives me something to think about for my writing (I got a new idea right now from Cameron's family ranch, actually!)! :D Here's to another 400 episodes, Isaac, and I will see you for the livestream on Sunday!
2323: I live on a minor unnamed planet out in the Kuiper belt. I had moved to Mars in the late 2050s or early 2060s (I built a hab in 56, but didn't move in outside of virtual visits via remote controlled Android until 2063) after living on an Earth-Mars cycler as the mechanic for three loops. Shortly after that I had a genetically optimized clone made, had myself optimized, and raised my son as a single father. Though he did have an android nanny, so that might not count. But when, in the 2280s Mars became far too urbanized for my tastes, I bought a small rotating hab that used to be a mine out in the Kuiper Belt and moved out there.
I still tune into Isaac Author's weekly broadcasts, though, and have all of them downloaded into my station's library along with lectures on every subject that interests me.
Your 2050 estimate is too optimistic. I be the first self sustaining settlement (not dependent on earth supplies) will be post 2070. Post 2150 if blackrock wins and enslaves a generation
What about living in the darkness of interstellar space can you do it? I wonder if there are sci-fi natural ghosts out there.
@@MyFirstHandle yes easily and absolutely not
@@MyFirstHandle don't have to worry about darkness as long as my fission reactor keeps running.
Love this!
I love this channel it is by far my favorite! I’ve learned so much over the years and always look forward to new episodes and always rewatch older ones. As someone who enjoys content like this it is truly a blessing to behold what comes into fruition every week! Thank you Isaac Happy 400th and cheers 🍻 to 400+ more🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🤘
The AI generated visuals are refreshing and improve the visual experience a lot. Imagine what you could do with text to video when that gets better.
There will come a time when the videos by Isaac will be made into a fully fleshed-out movie by AI. Next will come the time when inhabitable virtual worlds will automatically be made to match a specific episode. Isaac will then not be predicting the future, but *creating* the future.
A.I visuals always look cold and soulless.
I can't wait I just cant
Idk I would disagree that they add to the videos.
Honestly I wish Isaac just hire an artist.
2:41 That's an Eagle Transporter. It was almost 50 years since the premier of the show and the design is still used.
Congrats on 400 episodes 🎉 that’s damn impressive
thank you mr. arthur i remember requesting this a few months ago and couldn’t wait until i saw this in my recommended. this is exactly how i envisioned it. the individual lives you created is perfect. bravo!
That calorie dense greenhouse that Cameron's family runs is exactly what I'm looking forward to constructing. I have hardly ever heard anything like it mentioned except on this channel. You'd think that U.S. farming communities would be discussing that kind of thing by now, but I've not heard a single peep from Texas to Missouri to Wyoming.. I hope to get started on designing and property acquisition in the next decade, and getting to prototyping within two decades. Building the supporting businesses to fund the project will take some time.
Just build a normal greenhouse quonset and place reflective mirrors around it to amplify the amount of light hitting the plastic because it will scatter it inside so it’s indirect light, the direction it comes in doesn’t matter quite so much. This will do for an initial test. Don’t forget your control (Quonset with no mirrors) and standard (plants in and same location with no greenhouse structures, and with and without sprinklers). Publish your results and make UA-cam shorts. As for sustainability, consider making that plants be flowers that you can then sell. That also allows you to compare the profitability of the greenhouses for extra data points. After this branch out into crops. Suggest lettuce and celery, not potatoes and corn right away)
You're forgetting livestock. Our livestock burns enormous numbers of calories keeping warm in winter and looses weight to hot summer days. How much more efficient would they be if they never suffered extreme temperatures... how much less fuel would you burn if you didn't have to put up hay... the climate control could greatly shrink the heavy farming equipment industry.
These greenhouses are not just for plants and crops. They can house fish hatcheries, aquaponics, meat herds, tropical fruits.. position your structure at the currect depth, with appropriate thermal control and you can house any environment you want.
The issue is that some few people have done tropical greenhouses on a small scale and make bank on it, but their produce is not something the average person can afford escept as a treat. My goal is scale. This needs to be a superior method of large scale farming, and doable on a large scale. Right now, I know of no system that can handle a herd of cattle.. I aim to change that, if nobody does it first.
@@draidiansfather3382 but you need proof of concept to generate investment
Hey, I was the one spreading this kind of story of mine on Wattpad called "Life in the next 5 Centuries" I published it on Nov 2022 and I start spreading this idea in the comments section. I'm happy to see a video like his existing now. I'm not a big fan being responsible of being a fame and I like someone can do that for me and they get all the credits. My story is mostly about longevity and assisted reproductive technology. I made that story to focus away this overrated predictions about robots, AI, and flying cars.
The bit about cells and DNA being a proof of concept for self replicating nanobots points to an underrated and underdiscussed revolution in science that's happening right now, in the form of microbiology, both medical and environmental, and biomolecular science. Rather than creating inorganic nanites, DNA nanostructures and deisgner proteins and synthetic cells could be the way of the future. But as a microbiologist I am biased XD
we will probably have modified organic nanides before we have fully synthetic ones but it's unlikely that biology is the global maxium of micro/nanoassembly
Love your work Isaac! Congratulations on making 400 episodes!
Glad you like them!
Episode 400 :) it’s incredible, just how long and enduring your creativity, and the well-meaningness and growth of the community endures - this channel really is something special - congratulations, SFIA, I hope you make it to 2323 with the rest of us ♥️
Congratulations to the whole SFIA team and contributors. Thanks for the ponder fuel
You certainly can’t complain about an inconsistent upload schedule on this channel! Here’s to the next 400 episodes!
Ever considered a video on exotic or even hypothetical matter? Orionsarm had magnetic monopoles and a slew of technologies derived from them, like reactors that caused baryon decay of ionized matter to produce energy.
I think he did that in the meta-materials video
@@Mustard_Mann I’ve seen that video. Didn’t notice much about exotic matter
We have another called Upcoming Advances in Material Science ua-cam.com/video/cPCmrNAZnHE/v-deo.html We've considered more but it's been on the backburner for a while, I probably should add it to the image poll list.
@@isaacarthurSFIA yea, that’s more along the lines of magnetic monopoles.
I just really enjoyed your video on dark matter, which was actually a bit more expansive than the Orionsarm website was
@@isaacarthurSFIA Can you look in to the US military's claims of having created a 'nano-aluminum' that perfectly converts water to hydrogen at 100% efficiency with no added energy, which supposedly works in even the dirtiest water?
While I'm not generally a fan of 'shorts' the way the channel has been doing them I see it as a positive contribution. Give potential new members a little glimpse at something impressive or fascinating and hope they decide to check out a full episode.
Given the weight they have in the algo at the moment, its at worse a necessary evil, but I think its being used in a constructive way.
Congrats on 400 episodes! Coolest lore audio book I've listened to for a long time!
Congrats on the milestone! You're not wrong about the challenges when it comes to contemplating life that far out. Whenever I'm doing stories on the subject I swear I spend easily as much time researching and planning as I do getting words down, if not more.
Isaac, I've been watching your show for a long time and they just keep getting better and better. Thanks for all your inspiration.
I don't think I'll be alive in 2061, let alone in 2323. I was born in 1981, and unless my conscience is transferred to a computer or robot, I won't make it.
Freezing your body after death to be partially brought back to life is still better than nothing
It would be very funny if Issac, who throughout this whole episode is like "I don't know the future, I am essentially guessing. I am prepared to be wildly off," is just dead on.
If I were that last guy, I would have left a copy, and instructions to "revive" if a reply was not received, vis-à-vis my safe arrival and run on the colony ship, by a certain date. Not leaving a copy behind is one thing, but jumping without a safety line seems foolhardy to me.
Sounded like the scanning process killed your
When I heard Isaac use Oskalossa as an example I thought: "Cool! That's in my home state!" Congratulations on 400 videos Issac!
Well if any of us are still around by then, I think we should get together and make plans in 2323 to have a viewing party of this video and see how well it held up. Potluck!
Hahaha The 'gross' joke totally cracked me up for some reason. Congrats on ep 400!
Its borrowed from Tolkien as a bit of shout out to half elves and numenorians :)
Can’t believe I missed it
Congrats Isaac! I've been here since the very beginning. Thank you ever so much for years of falling asleep to your lovely voice
that intro 10 seconds describing living my whole life in a village and knowing nothing outside it sounds really nice.
Kinda goes full circle when it gets to the band of misfits crewing the ark ship...
Depends on the village
I don't know whether it's an accent or impediment, but his voice is strangely addictive to listen to.
No it's irritating
Congratulations for 400 episodes
I find this a fitting theme for the anniversary episode
one thing that stands out to me, and that I don't know if it will be true, is that the worldbuilding in these implies the future will have a high demand for human labour
2323 It's the year when pvz2 far future happens
That's quite the optimistic outlook... feels to me like, given our current path, 100 years from now will see the last years of our species. Just feels like the last remnants of our species will be in their final struggles, than it does that we will be well on our way to a better, more prosperous society.
Thanks for your work, man! I'm watching for a long time, but recently, your series are very helpful while imagining a dystopia for a project.
That story was amazing - please do more! Connecting your knowledge of science to a human experience of it is very powerful
144 was also the combined age of Bilbo and Frodo at the birthday party at the beginning of LotR.
Knowing IA it's a deliberate easteregg.
Yup. Well spotted
And I plan on continuing to support your content until they put me to bed with a shovel Issac. Never stop, I have been watching for so long I cannot imagine not getting excited for Thursdays with you.
I know you previously said, answering to people asking you write novels, that you weren't sure if you knew how to create good stories. Hearing this episode, I think you should reconsider that opinion about yourself. You just wrote the synopsis of not one but seven very interesting story concepts, and I would pay money to read those in a full fledge novel or compilation of short stories. Then again, you do what you want to do dear sir! Thank you for this video.
Wow! Episode 400! I found your channel around episode 100. Seems like yesterday. Congratulations and looking forward to seeing your 1000th show air. It'll probably be about some great new invention of science that hasn't even been thought of yet!
I think it far more likely rather than cities going up, they’ll go down instead. Whether because of climate change hot or cold, solar flares etc going underground seems to a solution. Think of a field growing crops that has thirty levels but only approx a 1/30 footprint.
Jobs would be minimal, AI and robots would do most of the hard graft. There would be an expectation to work/contribute but not essential when you have free energy, housing/food. Likely ‘class’ would be mostly middle class with only a very small elite group.
The hole in this story is sperm count is rapidly declining. By 2323 I’d expect tight population control, DNA sequencing for babies grown in tanks - possibly the only way to breed. I think it obvious like an avatar you can create designer kids, bad genes would be removed and combined with advances in medicine would mean lives well into the 120s on average if not more.
Earth would likely be split into continents, countries would be abolished. Probably only two or three languages. Colonies on various planets and moons, as well as mining (not on Earth) to be able to sustain civilisation.
The chances are probably higher we won’t get that far, natural disasters or man made viruses or just a regular nuclear Armageddon. If nothing too tragic happens, the total population left may be only less than a few billion. Then there’s aliens - well either they massively advance our civilisation in a short window or equally wipe us out within months.
This fucking video is the Shit!! My kids and I spent the evening at bedtime listening to this video than spent another 3 hours just talking about what we would do if we had access to all of this tech today. Than they were cranky in the morning cuz they didn't get enough sleep that night. Thanks for making my kids fall asleep in class Isaac. Geeze!! 😅
Gary’s tale was the perfect way to close out this great episode.
Sounded horrifying. One thing Isaac doesn’t do here, which he has done elsewhere, is acknowledge the copy versus cut and paste issue of mind transference. Gary Googolson dot example, in my view, represents a person who had their brain hijacked by a computer program and never got to live a normal life, falsely believing that he was an AI and having phantom memories implanted into him. And this AI then leads him to commit suicide. What would be an interesting question from a Christian philosophy standpoint which Isaac doesn’t get into, is whether the person who was lab grown and invaded by an AI was ever really free, and if he would go to heaven because he was providentially hindered from receiving any ordinary means of grace.
@@cosmictreason2242 You're welcome to interpret it that way, these guys aren't meant to be heroes just thought-stimulating vignettes on differences that the future might have, not necessarily positive or negative, but that's not the written intent with Gary. He wouldn't be viewing it as suicide but a life-threatening gamble to save friends and an endangered colony ship full of thousands, if it kills him and replaces him with a copy that has all his same personality and knowledge to help them, he'd view it as a regrettable but acceptable outcome as the character is supposed to be illustrating the AI who exemplifies humanity in an effort to strive to be one, and he explicitly is supposed to be on the fence on if this sort of transfer is imperiling his life or identity.
He is envisioned as transfering his brain one bit at a time from digital to an interwoven bunch of artificially grown neurons, he's not copied on some vegetized human, the character is loosely built off a mix of pinochio, Data from TNG, and the bicentennial man, he'd find body-snatching someone horrifying, but I'd also imagine many folks would worry that was what he'd done and could potentially be right too. But then they might assume the AI transferred onto the existing human eventually eroded and the human emerged. Again it's meant to stimulate thought not illustrate utopia :)
@@isaacarthurSFIA and I do appreciate it. My explicitly theological pondering is an extrapolation from what I’ve gleaned from your videos and considered in light of mind-body dualism. While I gather that you’re not Christian and your decision to avoid vague judgments on different religious views is deliberate, I had you pegged early on as someone who had a catholic background, which was at least half right. I enjoyed a bit of self satisfaction when you revealed the details more recently 😁. I could tell because some of the implicit assumptions, and considerations, that you would make are absent from many nonchristian futurists or science popularizers (eg Tyson, Kaku, Krauss, Sagan). I very much appreciate that you don’t simply put forth an uncritical Roddenbery-esque humanist materialist presumptiveness about the future. It makes your content that much more valuable because it is deeper, and also not stereotypically naive. I enjoy taking what you’ve put out and filling in the details to argue for my specifically Christian worldview on these topics (eg your Fermi paradox series make good supplementary arguments for the nonexistence of aliens). I am clear on what you believe and wouldn’t/don’t put words in your mouth. I know from before that your basic position is that re mind uploading, the copy of Gary that gets to the sleeper ship is “really him,” by any meaningful measurement. Whereas regarding continuity of consciousness, I think both in a purely materialistic universe and in a standard dualistic universe (unless one envisions that souls are entangled with the brain and can follow the matter stream), the Gary back at Sol would have biologically died and not wake up 60+ years later on the sleeper ship. This is the kind of interesting stuff that I think you could still get away with talking about without offending people: how souls would interplay with matter, regarding uploading and consciousness. Granting for the sake of argument their existence. Your discussion about the ship of Theseus (perhaps not by name) regarding changing your brain into nanites is a persuasive argument, and it raises the question of whether or not people WOULD, in fact, maintain continuity of consciousness if they did a gradual conversion method. What if they began to show cognitive decline the greater the percentage of their brain was nanites, or specifically some portions of it resisted conversion? It would represent a possible empirical test for the existence of the soul, since if mind uploading, brain replacement with nanites, or thawing frozen people never resulted in a functioning person, one might have an inductive argument, that it’s because there is now no soul present. If teleportation Star Trek style only produced lifeless corpses, otherwise identical to the original, that would also do it, but that’s nigh impossible technologically as you’ve discussed, but freezing and thawing isn’t and synthetic brains aren’t. So it raises interesting metaphysical questions. If these things DID work, it would represent either that the universe is purely material, or, less likely but presumably possible (in light of Christian resurrection necessarily involving separating the conscious mind from the body and reuniting it at a later date, well after physical death), perhaps immaterial souls are mysteriously entangled with the body and if the body is reactivated or copied, the soul moves with it.
Anyway, I didn’t think you were writing it as a horror story, that is my personal interpretation but I think it’s a valid one worth offering others for consideration, just like you say that the goal is to provoke thought. Definitely weren’t impugning you so if it sounded very negative, I’ll just point out that I wasn’t being emotional 🙂. Thanks for always being very thoughtful in your approach to the subjects you talk about. Regarding faith (it’s not contrary to reason), I don’t know if you are aware of the Christian astrophysicists Jason Lisle, Russel Humphreys, or Danny Faulkner, but I’d encourage you to look them up. Faulkner’s passionate argumentation against flat earthism, being a creationist, is very interesting. Lisle and Humphreys each have developed relativity-based technical proposals for distant starlight in a young universe. I think if you reached out just in your private capacity for discussion, Jason would be the most eager to talk to you. The guy is brilliant but also a lecturer. Even if you remain unconvinced of either their cosmology or theology, it would be really great to know that you’d done your research. This is my effort to give you something, since you’ve given so much. 😊
Dang it noticed a typo but editing comments removes hearts. It will have to be 🙄🤪
@@cosmictreason2242 Continuity of Consciousness is one of those tricky ones that I intentionally avoid having an official opinion on, I don't feel a compelling case can be made for any of the major camps even if I tend to default to John Locke's. We've discussed the Ship of Theseus argument more and explicitly elsewhere, a lot of those are good points and some maybe should have been raised in the episode too but time constraints often limit these things. I'm familiar with Faulkner's commentary on flat earth, which was quite interesting, and Humphreys of course, I find his starlight age speculations uncompelling, and will leave it at that.
They’ve been selling you this Jetsons fantasy for decades now, but they can’t pave the potholes or even keep the power on. Where’s my robot helper?
We have robot vacuums, mowers, and tons of smart devices, it may not be the Jetsons, which was never presented as a realistic future, but what we got even just half a century later is amazing, so three more centuries is likely to be even better
it is nice to see a story where multiple future options exist at the same time in the same place, it's more organic than the monolithic cultures I see in SciFi so often. Also as I mentioned in the past, I highly doubt everyone would want the same exact future whatever-tech, some would opt for it while others would want to wait it out a bit, and others would nope-out of it. just look at what we have today, does everyone use earbuds, no, some use headphones while others chose not to listen to music when away from the home/office speakers. I suspect eye and ear implants will be the same way for a long while (especially so long as re-growing amputated nerve endings isn't reliably a thing). you can't take some skin from your elbow and implant it into your retina and expect the touch and temperature nerve endings to morph into rod and cone cells, it doesn't work like that, not to say sensitivity and resolution of the implant while getting heat/pressure/pain/etc connections to line up correctly when just mashing nerve bundle ends together. it will take a lot of work, and for some "good enough" may not be good enough. anyway, it's nice to see a mixed variety of augmentation/uplifting in a story.
. One thing Isaac doesn’t do here, which he has done elsewhere, is acknowledge the copy versus cut and paste issue of mind transference. Gary Googolson dot example, in my view, represents a person who had their brain hijacked by a computer program and never got to live a normal life, falsely believing that he was an AI and having phantom memories implanted into him. And this AI then leads him to commit suicide. What would be an interesting question from a Christian philosophy standpoint which Isaac doesn’t get into, is whether the person who was lab grown and invaded by an AI was ever really free, and if he would go to heaven because he was providentially hindered from receiving any ordinary means of grace.
@@cosmictreason2242 I think Issac got as close as he is willing to without getting into specific theologies with that last asteroid colony episode or a few back (artificial afterlives), they will find out at the end of time the natural way when the computers stop and they pass on. asking if an uplifted mind has a spirit instead of just the organic body it was copied from isn't that removed from asking if an artificial sentient being has a spirit if they never had an organic body. everyone will have their own individual beliefs and they likely will not be the same. maybe in the end, it matters not what happens at the end, it's the improvements and efforts made here and now that matter anyway.
@@Zarcondeegrissom I think it’s impact on as ixuety society is overlooked and I you toy with the idea of making a story in such a setting
I've finally started reading the Strugatski Brothers' _Noon_ cycle, downloaded 11 volumes into my portal microcomputer, and of course I'm back on SFIA, too.
- Adûnâi
Loved this episode. Great job Isaac and team! Love the animation too.
I very much appreciate the effort made to not have the outtro music be several times louder than the rest of the video! ❤ Genuinely, you have my heartfelt gratitude as some previous episodes were thoroughly jarring at the ends.
Here's to another 400 wonderful episodes! 🎉🎉🎉
this would be horrible. virtually all of this stuff would result in conflict or be abused by a centralized authority
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@@sharonbraselton3135 you drunk there buddy?
You know we can be in a life threatening situation, humans vs whatever, but we'll still be dumb enough to fight ourselves
No matter how the future is spun, no matter how many years we look out, no matter how different isolated populations may be, we’ll still be, no matter when or where, ‘only human after all’.
Episode 400 already, congrats and eagerly awaiting the many next videos to come 🎉
I wouldn't mind looking like a seven year old at the age of 140
Looking like a 7 year old, means you have the physiology of a 7 year old. You probably don't recall, but being 7 had more cons, than pros.
Thousands wouldn't mind someone looking like 7yo at the age of 140
Though technology to make 7yo look like 30yo would make human trafficking wider
There are so many questionable things in this thread...
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Well, 'user' doesn't seem to understand why someone would be interested in a 7 year old... which I guess is a good thing 🤨
@@springbloom5940 nothing that can't be solved with cybernetics
Fantastic UA-cam channel, congratulations!
I have no idea if immortality nano-bots are feasible, but I watched a few episodes of that zombie series The Walking Dead and it occurred to me that the infection seems to violate physical laws if it was a biological agent, but it fits the idea of a prototype nanobot with defective firmware getting loose and infecting everyone so it keeps you alive, but only in a fashion.
When I saw you mention Fido at the start of the episode, I thought you were gonna talk about furries. Most sci-fi writers and thinkers focus on improvements to math and engineering, while ignoring biology Those which do consider bioscience only do so to say medicine has gotten better and maybe people will live longer (though a surprising amount of space opera still features the classic 80-year expiration date). But let's be real. When you get the kind of technology that lets you sculpt yourself like a greek god, you'll also be able to deck yourself out in a winter coat, complete with ears and tail. A lot of people would, too! Maybe not most, but a few million which will grow with the fashion. We probably could already do it by dissolving the cells out of donor tissue to collect the extracellular scaffold, and then reseeding it with animal cells that had been genetically modified with the MHC alleles of the recipient.
Congrats on your 400th episode, man. Reruns of your show are my favorite listening material for late night gaming
The amount of ways we can make furries real is terrifying hahaha XD
As a child, 60+ years ago, I imagined a 21st Century world resembling the Jetsons scenario, with the characters living all manner of giant skyscrapers, commuting in flying cars, and using other fantastical labour saving machines to do the housework. Now we've arrived at that future time, and modern cities don't actually look much different from what they were then. Yes, there are a few more eccentrically imagined buildings, like the Burj Khalifa, but they're still made from the same steel, concrete and glass. And they are still built and serviced by people who will never be able to afford to live in them, much like Manhattan or Singapore today. Despite improvements in the lives of the under-classes, the inequality gap has massively increased. Worse still, the damage to the ecosystems upon which all life depends is now virtually irreversible and about plunge us into a global collapse.
While the really significant changes over those 60 years, have been to the natural environment, we humans have made substantial progress with nanotechnology, computers and communications, way beyond anything 1950's science fiction writer Isaac Asimov imagined in his 'Foundation' series, set 10,000 years in the future. But for all of our tinkering at the edges of biotechnology and cybernetics, we haven't been able to solve many of the same problems that the Romans wrestled with 2000 years ago.
For me, 2323, as imagined here, looks utterly dystopian. I can't imagine anything more depressing than living on a planet inhabited by 100 billion immortal members of the same species, jammed into endless vertical towers, performing who knows what pointless 'make-work' jobs for hundreds of years, in a sickening parody of our 21st century malaise. It's like a gigantic petri dish filled with bacteria.
I'm thankful to find (so far) one voice of reason in this comment section.
But biotechnology is here.
Wow ! In the future
we will gave a chance to
"Get to Know" ...
BACTERIA !!
I'm sure they will open our
eyes to new vistas of
World Perspective ... :D
But we’d be a post-scarcity civilization. No poverty, war or disease. We would have taken care of all of that. You and I must have very different definitions of a dystopia.
400 episodes.... Wow. That's a lot of content reminding me I was born WAY too early. Let's hope reincarnation is real, or that cryogenics make some huge leaps forward real quick.
I am currently 18, if I don't die from something random in the next 50-60 years, what exactly are my chances to extend my lifespan using technology from the 2070s?
De-aging tech might be just around the corner. We've made lots of advances in that field.
@@cdemr Just look at how fast AI is moving these days. Some people say we'll have AGI in 18 months (I think it's more like 5 years away). Naturally, once you have AGI a lot of impossible problems suddenly become very possible, including life extension. Simply spin up 1000 instances of GPT-7, give them a lab and tell them to conquer death. Then just sit back and enjoy the show.
Its crazy to think that all of use even our Parents (im 26 Parents are 59 and 57) and children will be considered the oldest of old farts by then. Maybe will ee bunch into century generations by that point onto of everything. "We're apart of the same Century" i think that hits
Reincarnation is not, resurrection is, but you have to make a timely appeal to the Supplier and make sure to meet his qualifications. For example, He frowns upon bribery. To receive eternal life, you must publicly and in a binding contractual agreement admit your own inability to save yourself and that you don’t deserve what he offers you. In a way, it’s the easiest thing in the world. But for prideful men, it’s the hardest thing in the world
2323 is more than 2323 years from now but AD gets there sooner. This is exceptional Sci-Fi for MTV! These would be the best animated series on MTV!
This is not a criticism - far from it. But I am beginning to spot the difference between human and A.I. generated art. A.I. art is TOO perfect. Flawless, unique and all round - just TOO pretty.
Once you work out the kinks, anyway. The uncanny valley look of no less than seven fingers on each hand and facial feature proportions can be a bit off-putting.
I would disagree with the too good statement. The hands look mangled, proportions looks a little off, transitions between foreground objects and background, that aren’t harsh lines (like hair) are washed out or look like bad photoshop, and coloring doesn’t look like it was made with tools at all. And using AI generated images is something I would actually criticize, considering how much it screws over actual artists.
Nope neither ing oerft took perfect ai godess cirtana
Wow, my mid is officially blown. I just stumbled across this video luckily. What an incredible channel. Why aren't there millions of subs? Just brilliant.
please consider making a video on how life could look like in the year 2200
Co-signed
With AI and robots, it's hard for me to believe there are any professions! Like lawyer.
The AI lawyer would argue it's sentience and own the firm!
I like that suburban communities still exist in this scenario, as most people typically predict that the future will be one of vast megacities but in reality we're already seeing the early decline of cities. Technology is allowing more and more people to work from home and automation will further devalue living in a city. It makes much more sense that within the next 300 years instead of cyberpunk mega cities, a network of endless suburburban communities will stretch across the United States (I'm American so that's what I'm predicting.) I believe the 100 billion population number is completely ludicrous, instead population will fluctuate based upon factors we haven't even considered yet. Anyways. You can imagine that this vast interconnected suburban landscape is dotted by areas of dilapidation; entire neighborhoods, cities, and other once populated areas have given way to the natural world. During times of population growth they are redeveloped, but during times of population decrease more and more regions depopulate and are abandoned, and so the cycle repeats.
Just found your channel and I am now obsessed and fascinated with your videos. I'll be binge watching you!! You gained a new subscriber today! Can't wait to see what more your channel brings to me!! I absolutely loved this story. And the visual effects go so perfectly. Amazing job!! ❤️❤️
Imagine waking up in 2323 after being "frozen" for centuries to a wonderland of technology, run by a repressive totalitarian authoritarian government that none can escape.
Time travel can suck after all.
Such an incredible video and amazing milestone, CONGRATULATIONS on your video and marriage! Looking forward to many more! 🎉🎉🎉
Been here for years, been watching your videos since high school and am now working in the field of nuclear energy, thank you Isaac for all you've done.
I think this was my favorite video from you.
Very well done and thought provoking.
I was about to leave a snarky comment how our civilization won't even survive the Industrial Age Collapse but I have too much respect Isaac. In fact let his vision come through than whatever doom and gloom is taking over me.
Truth is we don’t know so any alternative future is valid and only disproved by time getting there eventually. I think we are cooked but I enjoy what if speculative fuction
It's either bladerunner / total recall or I am legend / book of Eli. If you're expecting a utopian future, you haven't been paying attention.
I have been looking forward to this video for a while!
I found it interesting how much the video dealt with transhumanism. Individuals being for, against or adapting certain changes or being against some.
He left some discussion out. One thing Isaac doesn’t do here, which he has done elsewhere, is acknowledge the copy versus cut and paste issue of mind transference. Gary Googolson dot example, in my view, represents a person who had their brain hijacked by a computer program and never got to live a normal life, falsely believing that he was an AI and having phantom memories implanted into him. And this AI then leads him to commit suicide. What would be an interesting question from a Christian philosophy standpoint which Isaac doesn’t get into, is whether the person who was lab grown and invaded by an AI was ever really free, and if he would go to heaven because he was providentially hindered from receiving any ordinary means of grace.
We're kind of just about on the forefront of that, now, with mind reading tech. And one of the biggest hindrances to that is going to be the concept of privacy, which gets completely ignored, here. Also, vice versa to the AI taking over a person- the people uploading themselves into computers. Does that hinder their ability to function mentally or emotionally? Are those technically just copies of people, or actual people? Is the energy consumption worth keeping those individuals running? How often to they need to be re-copied to new hardware in order to continue to survive?
@@MrChristianDT if you can find the thread where Isaac replied to my comment of the above, there is more treatment of TBD subject like what you’re bringing up
Love your narrative story telling. Except the part about nanobot updates being installed without rigorous testing. One never does that on Earth, why would a colony ship allow it for ANY critical system? Especially since all systems need to be fully operational to keep the passengers and crew alive.
5:10 I actually more gravely fear a controlled and aligned homicidal A.I. than an uncontrolled and unaligned homicidal A.I.
Also, Gary is definitely the MVP of this episode. Sacrifices the lifestyle he wants to help his friends, but does so not because they put upon him, but for his own purpose. Can he fix the nanobots, or will they have to use Fido's nanobots... with Fido's nanobots being the only ones working anymore, will they have to use Fido's DNA to fix everyone else? Will the humans be turned into a race of werewolves for having to use the Frankensteined DNA of a mutated Dog to actually repair themselves, or will they work out the kinks in the original nanobots? Will Gary be able to make himself a new human body? I know this is really just a vignette of different characters who all just connect to each other in slightly under 7 degrees of separation. But the last 3 seem to be an intrepid trio of misfits going on a great adventure together...
Yeah Gary was definitely a real champ here. And those three totally look like part of a party of explorers in a Sci Fi RPG. :P
@@commiedeerit really does feel like a tabletop scifi rpg
It's hard to image humanity will reach 2323..unless there's a huge change for the better, in the whole human nature as it is now
Things are constantly changing for the better and have been for the past century.
I wonder if loneliness and poverty would still be an issue in 24th century
Yes, more so.
One would hope not. The goal is post-scarcity
Poverty is relative. There will likely still be the divide between the rich and the poor, but the rich of today would happily give up everything to be the poverty stricken of the future.
@@MrNote-lz7lh modern slum is generally worse than medieval village tho
Imagine what kinda industrial polutant future human can make
Imagine ultra cancer aids
I really hope curing aging will become available this century for at least the same price as cryo freezing yourself. We can already do it to mice so fingers crossed
I am aware it is wishful thinking on my part but I cannot overstate how much of a blessing it would be to know technology could see me witness the amazing future humanity could build
Even a hard-cap of 500 years would be great, assuming we don't nuke ourselves we could get up to a whole lot and even augmented i'd have trouble seeing it all, spreading life to the stars in a much more official way would be something great to be a part of
It will be way more painful than we could think, and we'll become unable to imagine today's way of thinking without disgust because of all the changes
But life will be worth itself, because nothing else is.
@@Слышьты-ф4ю To be honest I already can't stand todays way of thinking so not much changes for me there
But definitely it will be a painful transition for many, many reasons.
Nuking would probably accelerate us in the long term because it would present a real problem so we don’t invent ones like beer bugs and ESG. If we experienced a global Marxist takeover it would probably retard our development by 1500 years but we’d get into space eventually regardless, because the efficient people working in the margins would still be making progress
I would sell my soul to Satan himself to see the future
@@AmariFukuiWhat specifically about "today's way of thinking"?
Love how IA paints the future as bright and full of promise Rather than dystopian and dark . I was watching the remake of V series and wonder how ot would be if they came to earth in 2323 with more than a 100 billion people. I wish they would make an I robot 2 in the yr 2350. Awesome video and congratulations.
How do you come up with all this? Just mind blowing the consistency and quantity of ideas you put out
Years of discussing and pondering i supposr.usually just sit down and start typing, and a few hours later the draft is ready, sometimes I outline or restart
I would love to watch it if you didn't sound like Elmer fud when you talk
@@JoshSmith-fr6fx I think the usual advice everyone gives is if the voice bugs you turn it down a bit and flip on the captions, and after a few episodes you won't even notice it anymore.
Uncanny timing: The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration certified 2 flying cars within the last week.
If you think I'm kidding, look up "Alef Model A" and "Aska A5".
More importantly, congratulations on your 400th episode! Here's to another hundred and beyond.
Disappointed that Capitalism still exists, and would have thought that and money would be mostly done away with when technology advanced enough to solve critical scarcities or at the very least a new more egalitarian economic system would have developed focused on:
The human condition, resources and natural ecosystems/wildlife. - Looks like civilization has yet to take its next evolutionary step.
I smell a WEF bot.
@@yodasmomisondrugs7959not everyone who disagrees with your worldview is a bot n its pretty silly & dangerous to believe that
@@virutech32 By bot I mean thinking for yourself. And they edited the original comment that made me say that in the first place.
@@yodasmomisondrugs7959 no. I edited to fix grammar and spelling.
Capitalism have been drastically improving people lives since its inception. No reason for it to stop or die down now just because it improves technology enough to solve critical scarcity.
My smol monkey brain decided 2323 AD was actually 823 AD, and the flying car reallllly threw me
This episode manages to make the setting interesting and likeable. I get the impression that there are dark tones in this world (what is good, since there are them in our world and any setting too bright sounds fake) and the choice to focus in the good aspect of things is part of what makes this world sound nice. On the same time, wars and deeply disturbing turning points in morality are not the prevalent aspect in daily lives of most people. Perhaps they have never been. Even warriors, living in a time of wars, will expend more time eating, talking, and walking from a place to another than in the heat of battle, I suppose.
Law and legal conflicts play a big part of that setting, that called my attention. Possibly because legal system in my own county nowadays has completely abandoned normality and we are for all practical purposed living under a autocratic rule of judges. But then, of course, US citizens think legal systems as something based in tribunals, where the last word is supposed to come mostly from normal people. Judges only shape things decided by the people (not completely, not every time, I bet, but in a far larger degree than here. Where the final decision almost always comes from the Judge and was until recently supposed to be based in laws. Not _ideally_ the whims of individual judges, like it is now, but also not the will of common people).
I imagine humanity is this near futuristic setting did something to avoid the Autocracy of Judges, and any other kind of tyranny of "specialists". Scientists and "scientists" both had to settle for share power with their fellow citizens as citizens, instead of rule by authority of rank. And by fear.
The normal people must have abandoned in some degree the crave for perfection. Cosmic Justice. Absolute Safety. Those sort of thing. Since that is the selling argument for all Totalitarian movements. Objective truth, Science, must have the last word, so e can be fair and safe, and for that to be possible we must give absolute power to those who speak with the voice of this Science.
Things are again decided by vote, non-specialists get to vote, and decisions are supposed to be imperfect. But that's good enough for most.
What counts as "people" is obviously the main issue now. In a way it has not been since the last nations abolished slavery, perhaps. I don't suppose having democratic and open debates around that issue can make the decisions any less terrible and cruel than what they would be if a "King Philosopher" was ruling by divine (or scientific) right. However, at least the inevitable changing nature of public opinion makes every mistake feel more ephemeral than what a single tyrant (or group of minds with a common goal and ideology) can hope to produce.
I don't see this as a place for me to live, to be honest. But I see this as a good enough place where many likeable people may be living, long after I die.
I'm not at all clear what country you're talking about. The US has two other branches, the executive and legislative. But maybe you are talking about the US? I'm confused.
Thanks for the question,@@squirlmy. Yes, most countries do have 3 branches: Executive, Legislative and Judiciary. Was like that here in my country as well, in theory still is but in fact Judiciary has taken absolute power and the other 2 are not just scenography. That's a possibility for any place with Constitution, is a risk that comes with the attribution of power of interpretation of Constitution. Who has this power has the potential to "interprete" NO as YES, and ignore all restriction to his own power.
In most parts it doesn't happen. Supreme Courts do try to balance their position and mediate between the different forces of society. Instead of use the infinite power they (potentially) have (or can take) to "Push History in the right direction" (quoting a Judge of our Supreme Court). The "right direction" in this case being a extremist Woke ideology.
I could be wrong, but for what I see from where I am sitting the Supreme Court of US is still a Supreme Court. Three Powers still exist in US. As a fact, not mere scenography.
As for the differences between my country and US, in terms of how Judiciary always worked and is supposed to work, here we never used the idea of "being judged by a jury of your equals". We have tribunals of jury, but only for 3 crimes. Generally speaking we depend a lot less on the common sense and morality of average citizens than a lot more on the opinions of specialists in Law. Judges and tribunals. (again, I could be wrong about how much your country trusts the common citizen)
I agree with you on that point, I'm fine growing old and seeing other people step way into this kind of future, my family too even. But I'm not personally in really living past my innate biological old age. It's been difficult enough for me to get to the current age I am, I take it as a badge of honor.
This episode was great! I love how the future concepts were laid out. It made way more sense than it could've.