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Technology may one day grant us a Utopia in which virtually all tasks are performed by robots and artificial intelligence. In such a post-scarcity civilization, people may have difficulty finding a purpose to existence. Today we will explore how this may come about, what the consequences of this existential threat might be, and what purposes people may find for themselves in such a future.

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Credits:
Post-Scarcity Civilizations: Purpose
ep 140 Season 4, Episode 26

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
A.T. Long
Darius Said
Dillon Olander
Jerry Guern
Justin Dixon
Mark Warburton
Matthew Acker
Matthew Campbell


Producer:
Isaac Arthur

Cover Artist:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics Team
Jeremy Jozwik
Justin Dixon
Ken York
Kristijan Tavcar

Narrator
Isaac Arthur

Music Manager:
Luca De Rosa - lucaderosa2@live.com

Music:
Dracovallis, "Cynthia" https://dracovallis.bandcamp.com/
Stellardrone, "Breathe In The Light" https://stellardrone.bandcamp.com
Kai Engel, "Endless Story About Sun and Moon" https://www.kai-engel.com/
Chris Zabriskie, "A New Day in a New Sector" http://chriszabriskie.com
Kai Engel, "Morbid_Imagination" https://www.kai-engel.com/
Aerium, "The Islands moved while I was asleep" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnU...
Lombus, "Cosmic Soup" https://lombus.bandcamp.com
Brandon Liew, "Into the Storm" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ2I1...

To ring in the New Year, we're joining up with Kaspersky Lab's Earth 2050 project to make some predictions about how our world will change over the next generation as we make improvements in technologies on medicine, data storage and manipulation, and robots & AI.
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Credits:
Earth 2050:
Predictions for the Next Generation
Episode 164a, Season 4 E50a

Production Team:
Isaac Arthur
Evan Schultheis
Gloria Meadows
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_...
Keith Blockus
Matthew Acker

Music:
Miguel Johnson, "So Many Stars" https://soundcloud.com/migueljohnsonm...
Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnU...
Denny Schneidemesser, "Across the Universe" https://soundcloud.com/denny-schneide...