Clarketech

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Science Fiction often presents us technologies that go far beyond the realms of known science, but many of these, such as force fields, inertial dampeners, anti-gravity, or faster than light travel might be possible if our future knowledge of physics holds some surprises. Today we will look at many technologies that are currently fanciful but may not be ruled out, what we call Clarketech, and consider what their implications would be if we could get them working. Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/EXL2Hd_dOzw Visit our sponsor, Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: 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 Credits: Clarketech: Indistinguishable from Magic Episode 177, Season 5 E11 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Cooper de Ruiter Darius Said Gloria Meadows Jerry Guern Keith Blockus Konstantin Sokerin Matthew Acker Matthew Campbell Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/ Jarred Eagley Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Justin Dixon Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ LegionTech Studios https://hades9.com Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca DeRosa - lucaderosa2@live.com Music: Paradox Interactive, "The Titan" https://www.paradoxplaza.com Kai Engel, "Endless Story About Sun and Moon" https://www.kai-engel.com/ Lombus, "Amino" https://lombus.bandcamp.com Markus Junnikkala, "Plotting A Course" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ A.J. Prasad of Dark Future, "Cold Shadow" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8-7qwaEPU Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUJY3l5vIJFGsY3XvW4dQ Markus Junnikkala, "Always Tell Me The Odds" https://www.markusjunnikkala.com/ 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 asked at the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
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0:20.1	This episode is sponsored by Brilliant.
0:23.2	The universe has been around for billions of years, yet we've only been studying it for a few centuries.
0:29.5	Who knows what secrets it still keeps, and what strange technologies we might develop as we discover those.
0:50.4	Music technologies we might develop as we discover those. So today's topic is Clark Tech, a term we use on this channel for referring to technologies
0:57.1	that generally operate outside the bounds of known physics.
1:01.4	We've a lot of material to cover so you might want to grab a drink and a snack, possibly
1:06.1	a slice of pie.
1:08.0	We get this concept of Clark Tech from a trio of adages by science fiction writer Arthur
1:13.3	C. Clark, known as Clark's Three Laws, particularly the third one, they are, one, when
1:20.2	a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly
1:25.8	right.
1:26.9	When he states that something is impossible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible,
1:29.2	he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible
1:35.2	is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. And 3. Any sufficiently advanced
1:41.5	technology is indistinguishable from magic.
1:45.7	The third one is the most quoted, but as a group they highlight the reason we generally
1:49.8	won't say anything is impossible, but this shouldn't be taken too far and folks tend to
1:55.2	fall into a sort of intellectual laziness by constantly asserting anything is possible.
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