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To measure the level of a civilization’s advancement, the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to harness. Obviously, the amount of power available to a ...

To measure the level of a civilization’s advancement, the Kardashev scale focuses on the amount of energy that a civilization is able to harness. Obviously, the amount of power available to a ...

Humans love to put labels on pretty much everything — even stuff we know nothing about, like undiscovered alien civilizations. Over 50 years ago, a Soviet astrophysicist invented a power ranking for ...

What if human civilization evolves to harness the power of planets, stars, or even entire galaxies? Explore the Kardashev Scale, a framework for understanding the far future of intelligence. Ryan ...

We have yet to make contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. If they’re out there — and surely they must be — we haven’t the foggiest idea what they might be like. Or do we? Given what we know ...

How Can We Usefully Measure Technology Progress? Can we have a scale that is immune to the Technology Singularity? Can we compare humanity on a common scale with animals and aliens? It is possible and ...

Currently the world economy is $82 trillion on a purchasing power parity basis (2012. The IMF is forecasting economic growth through 2016 for a world economy of $103 trillion. A world economy ten ...

For more than 50 years, the Kardashev scale has been the gold standard for classifying hypothetical 'exo-civilizations' by their ability to harness energy. A team of researchers has devised a new ...