New Technologies that May be in the Cards 

"If Brute Force isn't working then you're not using enough." Issac you make Thursdays great.

I'm beginning to think Isaac is shilling for 'Big snack' and 'Big drink' everytime I hear his warning at the start

5:29 Wait, so you're telling me I'm _not_ supposed to store my cats in the refrigerator?

5:25 "This object should not be stored here." The stock video you put with that line cracked me up soooo much, lmao

Where is my flying giant robot? Yeah, i know it's not that practical in reality but my inner six year old want one anyway.

isaac: warns about long video. Me: its only 30 minutes, its not that bad.

Ten minutes into the video and already the possibilities have my mind spinning. Your positivity combined with logic is intoxicating and uplifting. It's why we love you Isaac.

Isaac: "Grab a drink and a snack as we will be here for quite a while." Me: *Gets excited and checks the length of the video* Me: Awww only 30 minutes :(. On a not unrelated note. If you did an hour long "Documentary" style video what topic would you do it on?

"If brute force isn't working..." Send. Moar. Guardsmen. For the Emperor!

Well not gonna lie most of the episode was basically a nightmare for data protectionist.. ^^

Even in a "low skill" job, increased experience usually means increased productivity as well. At least while physically fit enough to perform the job.

What you could do with a room-temperature superconductor could be an entire episode.

I think I speak for most of your viewers when I say hearing "this will be a long one" makes us that much happier

I'll believe fusion is twenty years away when it's 5 years away.

17:47 "We'll be seeing a lot more remote work in years to come, but that's not just a matter of convenience but also safety." uh, I think we're already at that point

Your episodes have more content and quality than things that people pay to see in cable tv! Just waiting for the millions subscribers (and dollars) you deserve...

honestly the idea that students, or even worse workers, could have vitals, eye movement, "mood", etc monitored for maximising "efficiency" is beyond dystopian and not something im looking forward to.

Right now, I needed this whiff of techno-optimism.

This episode, much like the sponsor, is Brilliant.

18:40 - 19:30 - Orwellian police state stuff there! I do NOT want it!

One last comment: Do you think that this pandemic might turn out to be a kind of black swan event? I think it's going to spur some major, permanent changes in the way we live, especially in the "telecommuting" sector.

This may be one of your most wholesome episodes. Our time as Space Gods may lie far away, but a bright future waits around the corner anyway :)

"Very few folks realize what a large sector of our economy freight is" Wrote this script before the coronavirus epidemic?

5:29 "this object should not be stored here" *lets cats out of the fridge*

Yes, give me hope for the future, let me know we've got good things coming

"The following food items in your refrigerator are nearing their expiration date" *shows picture of a cat getting out of a fridge* OH NO

I'm kinda concerned with the 'transition' into these technologies to be honest, privacy in particular.

Bro, i just wanna say youre one of the best channels out there.

I login to youtube on a Thursday. First thing I see a new video from Issac 11 seconds old. I must comment.

Insurance companies may see a decline in claims, but there is no way we'll see a decline in premiums if we judge by how health insurance went.

Thank you Isaac & everyone on the team.

"Truck driving is the most common job in 29 states" ;-)

Just wanted to thank you for providing regular entertaining and thought-provoking content!

Oh, nice work on cutting out the excessive bass from your vids. I got so used to having to turn my sub off that when I forgot today, I didn't notice anything!

Elon musk was talking about renting out auto drive Tesla’s as taxis recently

"we'll be here for quite a while" *Looks at runtime* 30 minutes? Since when has 30 minutes been long for an SFIA episode? 🤨

14:16 "Attending university" was the first time I heard that phrase from someone who came from "this side of the pond."

25:35 If Graphene is light and strong enough then thinking of the submersible Alvin, the nothing of vacuum can have more lift than the something of Hydrogen.

One of your best videos Isaac - so much awesome stuff compressed into 30 mins. Just knowing / compiling all of these points must have been a big effort - well done to the writing team.

Oh yiss! Perfect timing for a walk in the woods!

"People can buy more things to improve their lives." *Me looking at my three separate Warhammer 40k armies* Yeah... improve my life...

Thank you for putting out some optimism today Issac. While it's important to be aware of the dangers around us, sometime we need a reminder of what exactly we're enduring those dangers for.

Thanks Isaac, stay safe and keep up the good work. It is needed now more than ever.

I Would love to see you and Thunderfoot on the same panel. While, he is also a techno-optimist, he is much more critical and skeptical. Like the Diamond battery hype. I can only go by published numbers but they may only be good for micro- or milli-watt application.

Love this topic! More of the near future techs, please

Isaac Arthur, you're doing good stuff mate. Good job. Thanks for the videos.

Great topic, I really enjoyed this one Isaac. Keep um comin!

I dont like the idea of cops having that much power considering you know. they’re cops

Coffee and a snack. Time to learn. Thank you sir.

Perfect to watch while in Covid 19 lockdown for my inner logician

Time codes for various topics - not all of them are discrete technologies, and some are topics discussing the impact of other items on the list: 1. 1:50 - Self-driving cars - This has the negative of job loss, but has many positives, such as reduced transportation cost, less traffic congestion, greater safety, and new opportunities for people to borrow or lend out cars. 2. 4:10 - Automated package receipt. 3. 4:30 - 3D printing. 4. 5:00 - Barcoding/inventory management - Includes 'food retirement' in which food can be automatically donated to people in need before it goes bad. 5. 6:13 - 'Auto-ebaying' - The ability to designate an item for sale and have it automatically listed and sold without further interaction (essentially, put an item in your mailbox and the service would handle the rest). 6. 6:30 - Better household, gardening, and agricultural robots . 7. 7:40 - General practice of community-owned/shared infrequently-used robots . 8. 8:25 - Improvements/changes to gardens as a result of intelligent robots being able to give better care . 9. 8:53 - Improved tunneling technology, allowing utility lines to be better deployed (this would be huge in California; overhead wires contributes to wildfires, while the combination of regulations and the current technology's left underground infrastructure lagging). 10. 9:05 - Declining need for insurance claims due to other technologies. 11. 9:40 - Routine DNA testing. 12. 10:15 - Improved medical scanning, including full-body, leading to earlier detection and better diagnosis. 13. 10:30 - Health logging. 14. 11:00 - Home medical testing / remote medicine reducing doctors' visits. 15. 11:48 - Nanotech and mind-machine interfaces. 16. 12:00 - Life extension and improved general wellness and productivity . 17. 13:00 - Greater productivity and improved education system . 18. 15:00 - AI assisted learning and moving away from standardized tests . 19. 16:00 - AI office efficiency experts (micro-management taken to extremes). 20. 16:35 - Computer dating living up to its promise. 21. 17:45 - Telepresence and remote work. 22. 18:40 - Crime prevention and response. 23. 19:35 - Smart cities . 24. 20:20 - Improved power generation and storage (batteries) . 25. 22:15 - Room-temperature superconductors for better distributed power grid . 26. 24:50 - Personal flight . 27. 25:40 - Self-replicating machines.

Finding this channel has been a huge blessing. Always excited to see a new video from this guy.

French toast and some futurism. Perfect combination.

Last time I was this early we'd have flying cars by the year 2000.

I have been meaning to post this for some time now. I have been following your channel since it only had a couple thousand subs and watching it grow has been pretty cool. Thank you for all your videos throughout the years. Keep up the good work!👌

I love your channel, been subscribed for a very long time. This is your absolutely scariest video as of yet.

I'd like to see some of these cost saving techs actually pass on these savings to everyone. Too often it just seems like any savings means more profits for the corporations, and half the time they'll just raise prices while they're at it.

"Boring technologies." Well fine be that way, but if they help us I think they're pretty interesting.

Ah, so many pointers to other videos and topics. Love how it intertwines. Thanks Isaac

I wanna report that officer at 18:46 with the criminal man-bun to the Fashion Police!

Along with increases in the use of telepresence, I think simply "working from home" and such may become a lot more common, especially given the current situation with covid19, which will probably result in some policy changes for some time to come.

"...[college and university]tuition will go down soon." I wish I had your optimism!

As always, a pleasure to listen and learn.

I love this episode! Please do more like this on near future tech! I still like the others, but I feel like you covered what I was interested in for deep future topics.

Would we be able to get sources on stuff? I'd like to delve into things in more detail

Love the video. So much information without a ton of fluff in between It seems you are getting more comfortable peaking too. There has definitely been a noticeable improvement. Keep up the great work.

This is an episode to watch over and over agin

Your 'smart' future is horrifying and we're getting a preview in China. The people who design those algorithms and 'own' the data are going to be powerful beyond the dreams of any dictator. ALSO The big problem with fission power, is not 'the fear of it', but the complete lack of any plan to safely deal with the waste. Another great video. Thanks.

New technologies: a fire in a trashcan keeping everyone warm

great video again pal you've cheered me up thanks

for a guy with a speech impediment you still manage to be among THE most clear-spoken, literate, and descriptively thorough youtubers across the board ever.

Thank you Isaac for the uplifting information of near future developments, it's much needed in these troubling times. With all the fear, panic and degeneration around us, it can be tough seeing a bright horizon, even if such developments are almost here technically. I just worry about the social aspect where the technology will be applied, quite a few people are so irresponsible and selfish it could possibly harm such beautiful developments from being implemented. I'm building a business around my doctoral research with respect to promoting a decentralized, distributed, workforce with a positive twist to the 4th and 5th industrual revolutions of information technology, plus human factors engineeting regarding automation. I truly hope to help bring forth some good in what I do, even if small, to make the future a little better. Great show as always!

Hey Isaac! Wondering if you could cover the Safire project in a future episode in light of their recent announcement to power generation and nuclear waste cleanup!

I needed this optimism today.

I really like how you made a smooth transition between topics here...

SFIA always making reality more exciting!

Did anybody else read "Cards" in Isaac's voice?

That extension of 20 years to productive career time is going to be absolutely momentous on its own. Thanks for pointing it out, hadn't thought of that. I work in software and personally don't find the idea of being retired, and thus idle, appealing whatsoever to me. Hopefully I'll be able to continually adapt in my golden years as much as now - a critical skill for a programmer.

Issac is here to save us from quarantine boredom!

The lack of garages is one of the major factors that limit and hinder the adaptation of current electrical vehicle technology in Europe. Unlike in the USA, private garages are rare in Europe and because lots and houses tend to be small, most people who actually have a garage, use it for storage and still park their car out on the street. With current EV technology, you really need a place where you can charge your car over night. Running a 100 yard long cable out your kitchen window down the block to where you parked your car, is really not feasible, which is why EVs aren't selling in Europe the same way they do in the USA. It is quite ridiculous in Germany, where the press is having a feud with the car industry for decades, always gleefully predicting and announcing the end of the German car industry, because they supposedly were asleep at the wheel and didn't innovate enough. That narrative made some sense in the early 90s, when German car technology was chasing after the more innovative French, Scandinavian and Japanese competition, but that trend has been reversed and German cars have been among the most advanced and innovative for the last 20 years or so, leading the way with stuff like 360 degree cameras and such stuff, while the worldwide competition seems to try to pick up trends coming out of Germany. Still, the German press acts as if the German car manufacturers were a bunch of outdated dinosaurs that deserve to die out because they didn't immediately switch their production to all EV the minute Elon Musk had his first press conference. Those imbecilic journalists never bother to ask whether EV technology is mature enough and compatible with the German and greater European infrastructure. You have to wonder what those idiots think VW, Daimler and BMW were supposed to do, tear down half of the homes in Germany, so the remaining half has room for garages to charge EVs in? It is ridiculous. In order for EVs to become widely viable in Europe, we'll need technology that allows for charging the batteries in the time it would need to fill up a gas tank at a gas station. It is like that with many new technologies that get touted as "the future!". Most of them are designed for American Suburbia, which is a way weirder and more unusual environment than most Americans realize. Another good example is "Screen Walls", you know the idea to cover a whole wall with a giant screen, maybe all the walls in a room, so you can make it look as if you're not in a room at all. Stuff like that can't work in Europe and most of Asia. Houses are small. People don't have room for walk in closets. That means you need to have cupboards, cabinets and shelves on pretty much every wall in every room of your house, to store your shit in. Turning whole walls into screens isn't an option in like 80% of the developed, wealthy world, where people could afford such technology. As I said, American Suburbia surely seems mundane and normal to most Americans, but it actually is a very unusual, weird, unique environment that has its own rules and is different from everywhere else in the world. Technologies designed with those weird, unusual conditions in mind, will have a hard time finding worldwide adoption. When you listen to modern architects, city planners and infrastructure engineers, apparently American Suburbia might not be around forever either. There is a lot of talk of going back to older, more urban ways of living, making cities and neighborhoods more "walkable", making streets narrower to make people drive slower and so on.

14:42 A lot of people would disagree on that. Online classes have their uses, but they don't replace in-person classes. Online classes can't even come close.

You should do more like this, Isaac.

Some of this tech sounds like a nightmare.

Will there be space dragons?! I think Isaac will anounce space dragons. :D EDIT: Alas, no space dragons. but Fusion, plus automated vehicles, plus potential expanding orbital infrastructure... That could be viewed as space dragons? Right?

+3 Dexterity +5 Intelligence +7 Information

Looking forward to the superconducting episode. That magic angle of 2 sheets of graphene at 1.1 degrees is mind blowing!

"Science and Near Futurism!" Thank you Isaac for covering near future developments. I'm keen to watch videos where you share thoughts and insights into the next ten years.

Everybody is all for more automation until they realize that their jobs are also low skill and will be replaced as well. Don't see too many McDonald's workers clamoring for 15 bucks an hour now that they're being replaced by automated cashiers.

I want extensive advancements in genetic modification. I want my catgirls damn it.

Given how potentially dangerous a snowblower is, which in contrast to an automated lawnmower has a high powered auger that is open at the front of the snow blower, I don’t see it being fully automated anytime soon. Snowblowers also need to be maneuvered in unique ways that requires use and shifting of the operator’s body weight. In high snow fall areas, the snow can cover obstacles (especially over time from multiple snow falls as the snow still has to be blown somewhere) which the operator needs to know about and avoid accordingly even if they can no longer see the obstacles. Examples of such obstacles may include edges of stairs, power cords, etc.

I can remember when you thought having 10,000 subscribers was a big deal, and now here you closing in on half a million. :-)

you would have given orwell nightmares.

Your comment about future automated charity is terrifying. It's clear you're operating under the same misconception that nearly everyone is operation under, in reality CANS are BAD! Charity food banks and soup kitchens HATE them. Most are thrown out and the rest only reluctantly distributed. Both of these steps cost a significant portion of the budget for these charities. If people stopped giving cans that money could buy more food then is in the cans. It's a strait loss. But charities can't refuse them because collecting cans is such a popular tradition which makes people who don't understand economics of scale feel better and hopefully donate MONEY to the food bank which is the ONLY thing that they really want.

I always make a list of the concepts you talk about as future investment opportunities. As a Physics/Chem student, I’m always looking for interesting fields that will grow in the next decade to get a company started or do meaning research in. Thank Issac for all you do. It’s really inspiring and helpful

If we look at diamond batteries like the prototype design presented on wikipedia, we see that each 10*10*0,5 mm battery, that could be assumed to be 10*10*1 with added electrodes would produce electricity at 2V and at a power of 0,17mW. This would mean that in order to recharge a cellphone battery of 60kJ (4000mAh @ 4V) in 24 hours, one would need roughly 4000 batteries. However, when each battery only needs a volume of 0,10cm³, the assembly would only need 400cm³ or 0,4 liters of space. This means that you could easily see portable chargers with a combination of diamond batteries and more traditional ones powering handheld devices off-grid

"remove those and things get cheaper" what you mean to say is "cost of business goes down, but the customer never sees it and instead the price goes up and the tech will be the excuse".

1,000,000th!

I was discussing the rapid expansion of in home medical tech and remote medical services with my wife last night. We saw a commercial for doctors services and diagnosis over the phone. My parents are in their mid-eighties, and obviously at high risk from the current pandemic. They have a variety of medical devices already at home, and with a minimum of smart tech added could go almost all of the test currently done in an office, and send real-time data to the doctors systems. No need to leave home, and with just a little more scaling could track their daily health and alert the most needed people as needed. This could be done easily and quickly. We're also seeing people actually being involved with their children's education on a wide scale for the first time in generations. This is going to lead to dramatic changes at a rapid pace too. Great episode!

Isaac: "chews with their mouths open or tends to click pens or tap their fingers" Feels like this comes from the heart.

I know this is small, but I really like the music choices for this video, the intro song was nice and exciting, and the ambiance was nice throughout...