> Especially since at the point any civilization starts to develop technology, it happens really exponentially. Most likely, even overall technological develop

> Especially since at the point any civilization starts to develop technology, it happens really exponentially. Most likely, even overall technological development forms some kind of sigmoid function. It's likely to hit an absolute wall at some point. Obviously, though, we have no idea if we're 0.0001% of the way or 10% of the way to that wall.