Futurism
Offered By: Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Kurzgesagt's YouTube channel focuses on minimalist animated educational content, using the flat design style.
Syllabus
What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth.
Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do.
When Time Became History - The Human Era.
Unlimited Resources From Space – Asteroid Mining.
What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale.
How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines.
1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook.
Building a Marsbase is a Horrible Idea: Let’s do it!.
How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure.
How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY – Space Colonization 1.
The Deadliest Being on Planet Earth – The Bacteriophage.
The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations.
The Rise of the Machines – Why Automation is Different this Time.
Do Robots Deserve Rights? What if Machines Become Conscious?.
Fusion Power Explained – Future or Failure.
Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR.
Safe and Sorry – Terrorism & Mass Surveillance.
Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind?.
Quantum Computers Explained – Limits of Human Technology.
Taught by
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
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