The Fermi Paradox: Rare Technology

The Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, has many proposed solutions focusing on what might lower the odds of intelligent species arising on another world, or what might end technological civilizations or cause them to go unseen by us and our SETI efforts. But what if intelligence rarely leads to technological civilizations in the first place? Could there be countless planets in our galaxy occupied by species who never came to value technology? Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/XcrrW1GgHso Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur Visit our...