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Isaac Arthur
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Born (1980-09-20) September 20, 1980 (age 44)
Sebastopol, California
EducationBS in Physics
Alma materKent State University
Occupation(s)Science communicator
Board of Elections commissioner[1]
Known forScience & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
SpouseSarah Fowler Arthur[2]
Websitehttps://www.isaacarthur.net/

Isaac Albert Arthur (born September 20, 1980)[3] is a science communication YouTuber and futurist.[4] He is best known as producer of his YouTube channel, Science & Futurism With Isaac Arthur (SFIA), where he discusses a broad variety of topics on futurism and space colonization.[5]

Early life and education

Arthur was born to two physicists and raised by his mother and his grandfather, Alan Arthur, along with an older sister. He was homeschooled from the age of ten, and dropped out of high school at age twelve. He received his GED at the age of sixteen. In 2001 he graduated at the top of his class with a degree in physics from Kent State University and began to pursue a graduate degree in biophysics.[6] Arthur became involved in local politics and now serves as chairman of the Ashtabula County board of elections.[1][6][7][8] His wife, Sarah Fowler Arthur has represented Ohio's 99th district in the Ohio state legislature since 2021.

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Arthur began an educational YouTube channel, Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur, in 2012. In September 2014, Arthur released the first video on the channel on the topic of megastructures.[12] The channel is now host to over 795,000 Edit this on Wikidata subscribers and 450 Edit this on Wikidata videos as of May 28, 2022 [13] Isaac contributed to the United States Air Force Academy’s simultaneous transition to remote education during the COVID-19 pandemic and the launch of the graduation of USAFA cadets into the United States Space Force by joining USAFA’s Space Policy course as a visiting lecturer.

Arthur continues to serve as a board member of his hometown's Board of Elections by day, spending the majority of his personal time working on the production of his videos.[6] Following the success of his channel, Arthur collaborates with other science communicators, including Paul Sutter[14] and Fraser Cain,[15][16] and acts as an analyst and consultant for science fiction novels and games, such as HADES 9.[17] His channel is dedicated to topics including space colonization in the near and far future, futurism, artificial intelligence, and transhumanism, among others, especially in the context of thermodynamics, economics, science fiction, the Fermi paradox, and the Dyson dilemma. The channel's main focus is to speculate on how humanity or other hypothetical advanced civilizations may behave logistically, technologically, and socially, in the near and distant future under the laws of known science.[13]

The channel releases new episodes every Thursday, which tend to be around thirty minutes in length and are roughly organized into series:[18]

  • Advanced Civilizations
  • Alien Civilizations
  • Post Scarcity Civilizations
  • Civilizations at the End of Time
  • Cyborgs, Androids, Transhumanism & AI
  • Fermi Paradox
  • Interstellar Warfare
  • Megastructures
  • Upward Bound
  • Outward Bound

Arthur also collaborates with other YouTubers and science communicators.[19]

In 2020, Arthur was named the recipient of the National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award for Education via Mass Media for his YouTube channel.[20]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Eck, Joshua (26 October 2015). "SECRETARY HUSTED APPOINTS ISAAC ARTHUR TO THE ASHTABULA COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS". Ohio Secretary of State Media Center. Ohio Secretary of State. Retrieved 30 July 2018.[permanent dead link‍]
  2. ^ "Sarah Fowler Arthur Biography". OhioHouse.gov.
  3. ^ "SFIA Monthly Livestream: January 20, 2019 at c. 52min 12sec". YouTube. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  4. ^ Brown, Leah (November 16, 2017). "Futurist Isaac Arthur predicts robots will replace white collar, not blue collar, jobs first". TechRepublic. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  5. ^ Barna, Ben (August 16, 2019). "14 Space Enthusiasts Predict Our Future In The Cosmos". Interview Magazine. Retrieved December 15, 2019. The day will come when we shoot our first science-fiction film in orbit, or a middle-class fan can buy a ticket to visit the set, or to catch a zero-gravity sports game. But the greatest achievement of all will be when traveling to the moon is mundane.
  6. ^ a b c "GitHub 100k subscriber special". GitHub. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Ashtabula County Board of Elections". Ashtabula County Board of Elections. Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  8. ^ Todd, Mark (August 16, 2018). "Almost every issue approved for ballot". Star Beacon. Retrieved September 12, 2018. Isaac Arthur, board chairman, agreed. 'We're going from a secured police station to Fort Knox,' he said.
  9. ^ Brown, Leah (13 November 2017). "How disruptive technologies shape the way we work". TechRepublic. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  10. ^ Brown, Leah (25 August 2017). "Far-future tech: How to build a solar megastructure". TechRepublic. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  11. ^ Todd, Mark (July 30, 2018). "Geneva resident's science programs a hit on YouTube". Star Beacon. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  12. ^ Arthur, Isaac. "Megastructures (Original Summary Version)". YouTube. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  13. ^ a b Arthur, Isaac. "Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur". Isaac Arthur - YouTube. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  14. ^ Sutter, Paul (January 18, 2018). "The Compendium of Doom, Part 2 (Collab w/ Issac Arthur)". Paul Sutter. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
  15. ^ "Author: Isaac Arthur". Universe Today. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
  16. ^ "Open Space: Live QA With Fraser Cain, Guest: Isaac Arthur". Space TV. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
  17. ^ Nick, Matt, Dan, Luuk, Ryan. "HADES 9 Update: March 8, 2018". HADES 9. HADES 9. Retrieved 30 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ Arthur, Isaac. "Home - IsaacArthur.net". IsaacArthur.net. Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur, LLC. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  19. ^ Cain, Fraser (18 November 2016). "Colonizing the Solar System". Universe Today. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  20. ^ "National Space Society to Honor Isaac Arthur at Its 2020 International Space Development Conference". National Space Society. March 2, 2020. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
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