Isaac Arthur#Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Arthur was 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.{{cite web |title=GitHub 100k subscriber special |url=https://github.com/CuteLifeBot/IsaacArthur/blob/master/vids/SFIA-100k-Subscribers-Special.md |website=GitHub |accessdate=20 January 2019}} Arthur became involved in local politics and now serves as chairman of the Ashtabula County board of elections.{{cite web |title=Ashtabula County Board of Elections |url=https://www.electionsonthe.net/oh/ashtabula/ |website=Ashtabula County Board of Elections |accessdate=30 July 2018 |archive-date=8 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808011735/https://www.electionsonthe.net/oh/ashtabula/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.starbeacon.com/news/local_news/almost-every-issue-approved-for-ballot/article_c63afe8c-638d-50e6-aa81-1720dcffe2cb.html |title=Almost every issue approved for ballot|last=Todd |first=Mark |date=August 16, 2018 |website= |publisher=Star Beacon |access-date=September 12, 2018 |quote=Isaac Arthur, board chairman, agreed. 'We’re going from a secured police station to Fort Knox,' he said.}} His wife, Sarah Fowler Arthur has represented Ohio's 99th district in the Ohio state legislature since 2021.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Fowler Arthur Biography |url=https://ohiohouse.gov/members/sarah-fowler-arthur/biography |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=Ohio House of Representatives |language=en}} Arthur enlisted in the US Army in 2003 and was deployed to Iraq from 2005 to 2007. He left the military in 2010, returning to his home in Ashtabula, Ohio.

Arthur joined the United States Air Force Academy space policy course as a visiting lecturer, contributed to the 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.{{cn|date=September 2023}}

Arthur serves on his hometown board of elections by day, spending the majority of his personal time working on production of his videos. He collaborates with other science communicators, including Paul Sutter{{cite web |url=https://www.pmsutter.com/appearances/2018/1/18/the-compendium-of-doom-part-2-collab-w-isaac-arthur |title=The Compendium of Doom, Part 2 (Collab w/ Issac Arthur) |last=Sutter |first=Paul |date=January 18, 2018 |website= |publisher=Paul Sutter |access-date=September 12, 2018 |quote= |archive-date=September 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913073724/https://www.pmsutter.com/appearances/2018/1/18/the-compendium-of-doom-part-2-collab-w-isaac-arthur |url-status=dead }} and Fraser Cain,{{cite news |url=https://www.universetoday.com/author/iarthur/|title=Author: Isaac Arthur |work=Universe Today |access-date=September 12, 2018 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.spacetv.net/live/open-space-live-qa-with-fraser-cain-guest-isaac-arthur/|title=Open Space: Live QA With Fraser Cain, Guest: Isaac Arthur |last= |first= |date= 24 April 2018|website= |publisher=Space TV |access-date=September 12, 2018 |quote=}} and acts as an analyst and consultant for science fiction novels and games, such as HADES 9.{{cite web |last=Nick, Matt, Dan, Luuk, Ryan |title=HADES 9 Update: March 8, 2018 |url=https://hades9.com/2018/03/08/hades-9-update-march-8-2018/ |website=HADES 9 |accessdate=30 July 2018}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Arthur |first1=Isaac |title=Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur |url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/videos |website=Isaac Arthur - YouTube |accessdate=4 March 2020}}

The channel releases new episodes every Thursday, which tend to be around thirty minutes in length and are roughly organized into series:{{cite web |last1=Arthur |first1=Isaac |title=Home - IsaacArthur.net |url=https://www.isaacarthur.net/ |website=IsaacArthur.net |publisher=Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur, LLC |accessdate=30 July 2018}}

• 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

Outward Bound's main protagonist is the traveler, featured across the series.

Arthur collaborates with other YouTubers and science communicators.{{cite web |last1=Cain |first1=Fraser |title=Colonizing the Solar System |url= https://www.universetoday.com/132010/colonizing-outer-solar-system/ |website=Universe Today |date=18 November 2016 |accessdate=8 August 2018 |language=en}}

In 2020, Arthur was named the recipient of the National Space Society Space Pioneer Award for Education via Mass Media for his YouTube channel.{{cite web |url=https://space.nss.org/national-space-society-to-honor-isaac-arthur-at-its-2020-international-space-development-conference/?fbclid=IwAR3DWA--uFqu0T2LlaPQoiDMw1kGQ5AHtj96GRxiLLI0qCe7D8IznzcClDc |title=National Space Society to Honor Isaac Arthur at Its 2020 International Space Development Conference|author= |date=March 2, 2020 |website= |publisher=National Space Society |access-date=March 3, 2020 |quote=}}

On March 1, 2023, Arthur was elected president of the National Space Society (NSS).{{cite web |url=https://space.nss.org/national-space-society-executive-committee-officers/ |title=National Space Society Executive Committee Officers |date=16 September 2017 |access-date=March 9, 2023}}

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• [https://isaacarthur.net/ Official website]
• [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g YouTube channel]

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