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The author didn't mention it but there is a scale for measuring the level of technological advancement called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale http:

by chime 15y ago

The author didn't mention it but there is a scale for measuring the level of technological advancement called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale that takes the energy consumption of the civilization into account. According to the linked article, we will be Type III in 2500 years.

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nknight 15y ago
I think the real implication is that we would have to be a Type III to survive at that point. I suspect this is a practical impossibility. Certainly the speed of light presents significant challenges.
- arethuza 15y ago
  If we did produce a Type III civilisation I don't think it would be based on anything remotely like a collection of biological humans. Probably more like the god like entity playing with humanity in Missile Gap by Charlie Stross: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/04/missile_gap.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/04/missile_...
sidman 15y ago
If im not mistaken i remember Michio Kaku saying that we will reach type three in about 1 million years from now where humans can build dyson spheres and harness the energy from galaxies, where we would be able to send robots to search other galaxies and then create gateways for the actual type 3 civilization to travel through to them. We are currently as he states it at 0.7 and our greatest challenge is to break past the type 1 where it is the most violent, like a child moving into their teenage years. Looking at the state of the world today we are kind of doing so, where type 1 allows humans to harness and completly understand the power of the planet (solar, wind, kinetic) we are developing systems to help us harness it however we just need to ensure we dont obliterate ourselves before we get there.

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The author didn't mention it but there is a scale for measuring the level of technological advancement called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale http:

by chime 15y ago

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nknight 15y ago
I think the real implication is that we would have to be a Type III to survive at that point. I suspect this is a practical impossibility. Certainly the speed of light presents significant challenges.
- arethuza 15y ago
  If we did produce a Type III civilisation I don't think it would be based on anything remotely like a collection of biological humans. Probably more like the god like entity playing with humanity in Missile Gap by Charlie Stross: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/04/missile_gap.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/04/missile_...
sidman 15y ago
If im not mistaken i remember Michio Kaku saying that we will reach type three in about 1 million years from now where humans can build dyson spheres and harness the energy from galaxies, where we would be able to send robots to search other galaxies and then create gateways for the actual type 3 civilization to travel through to them. We are currently as he states it at 0.7 and our greatest challenge is to break past the type 1 where it is the most violent, like a child moving into their teenage years. Looking at the state of the world today we are kind of doing so, where type 1 allows humans to harness and completly understand the power of the planet (solar, wind, kinetic) we are developing systems to help us harness it however we just need to ensure we dont obliterate ourselves before we get there.