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As we head into the new year, it's a good time to take stock of the challenges we'll face

for the next 100 years and the rewards that await us if we overcome them.

Yeah. 100 years and the rewards that await us if we overcome them. So today is the final episode of Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur for the year 2021, with tomorrow being New Year's Eve, and I thought we would look at some of the challenges we'll

be facing in this new year and the next century in general.

I am your host, the aforementioned Isaac Arthur, and while it is quite common for lots

of shows and articles to do predictions for the future at this time of year,

we do predictions here all year round. And so often with these end-year discussions

I like to emphasize all the ways predictions can go wrong. While the show is often noted

for its general optimism that honestly is not intentional, and while I do try to keep an upbeat

tone, it can never

be at the expense of accuracy. I feel this is a problem with some others where they get

so glum about the future that they seem to view our fate as inevitable destruction by some

given cause, assuming that another doesn't get us first. So today we're going to be looking

at a few of the challenges we might need to overcome

in the next century, and I know that I say overcome, not meekly surrender to.

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