Becoming a Kardashev- 1 Post-Scarcity Civilization (Narration Only)

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Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Kardashev Scale measures how powerful a high-tech civilization is, with K-1 indicating a advanced society able to call on all the power of their planet, which we often envision as a Post-Scarcity Utopia. Is this the future of Humanity? And if so, how can we achieve it? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/OcIXiRftjs4 Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook is free. Visit http://www.audible.com/isaac or text "isaac" to 500-500. Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Episode's Audio-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/becoming-a-kardashev-1-post-scarcity-civilization Episode's Narration-only version: https://soundcloud.com/isaac-arthur-148927746/becoming-a-kardashev-1-post-scarcity-civilization-narration-only Credits: Becoming a Kardashev-1 Post-Scarcity Civilization Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur Episode 263; November 5, 2020 Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur Editors: Jerry Guern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxgArWbEhZg S. Kopperud Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics: Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,
0:05.2	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:20.0	This episode is sponsored by Auduble.
0:23.2	We often dream of a future in space as a future of prosperity, but what is involved in
0:28.7	becoming a utopia of near-inless energy and resources?
0:33.1	Recently we've been looking at how we might become an interplanetary species, and that's
0:37.3	focused principally on getting our civilization up and out to space and the world's beyond,
0:42.3	so today we'll take a look a little closer to home on what's going on back on Earth while
0:46.3	all that is going on in space, what life could be like here for the vast majority of folks
0:51.3	who are not involved in leaving the planet.
0:53.3	It seems like a good time
0:54.7	to focus on a positive future, and in the nearer term, given that 2020 has been a heck of a year,
1:00.0	and I'm writing this at the end of August so it's only two-thirds done. So how in this next century
1:05.0	or maybe in the next few decades might we manage to become both a college of one civilization
1:09.1	and a post-scarcity civilization.
1:12.2	For channel regulars, you're probably already familiar with both those terms, but to review,
1:17.0	the Cardyshev scale is a loose measurement of how powerful a civilization is, with a K-1 civilization
1:22.6	being one that uses all the power of a planet, a K-2 using all the power of a star, and a K-3 being one that uses all the power of a planet, a K2 using all the power of a star, and a K3 being one that uses
1:29.3	all the power of a galaxy.
1:31.8	That's it for the official scale, and it doesn't necessarily imply any particular
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