Kardashev scale- Marking up civilization

Humans are advancing faster. So is technology. Bringing technology in, techs are progressing more quickly, like as it took roughly 10,000 years to go from cave paintings to a textbook, but only about 500 years more to get into computers. Similarly, the first modern human evolved from 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. They came together, settled down near river banks, started agriculture, and shaped the very start of the cradle of human civilization.

With the rapid rate, we and our techs are leveling up, and we will reach a point where this growth will gradually become uncertain and uncontrollable. Call it an intelligence explosion or a technological singularity. If you are intelligent enough, this will make you think that we stand on the verge of our cradle. This thought happened a lot of time before, and every time we excelled up, our thought limits to achieve the impossible.

There's a lot more to explore. And our growth will never stop. To measure this growth, NIKOLAI KARDASHEV, a Soviet astronomer, proposed an excellent method to club up our civilization's level of culture and all other types of civilization in the Universe. He figured out that the most effective way to judge a civilization is by measuring its energy consumption at a collective scale. We call it the KARDASHEV SCALE. Kardashev designed this scale with three primary categories. Type I, II, and III. Let us start discovering them one by one.

TYPE I- PLANETARY CIVILIZATION

ENERGY CONSUMPTION: 10^15 watts

A type I civilization can harness every bit of energy from its home planet. For humans, this will shift our energy output from fossil fuels to renewable energy resources. Interestingly, we stand far from type I. This is because we still rely on most of our energy production from fossil fuels. As soon as we shift to 100% renewable energy, we would advance to planetary civilization. At the slowest pace, this will take around 100-200 years. Long time. Isn't it? This leap is possible when we increase our energy consumption with an average rate of 2-4% every year.

Humans will be able to control the weather and natural calamities (You could create your earthquakes and floods). Nuclear fusion and antimatter production will be a piece of cake for us. Ageing will be cured. Asteroid mining will be the next big business to invest your money in. These changes would mark the coming of the post-scarcity economy.

TYPE II- STELLER CIVILIZATION

ENERGY CONSUMPTION: 10^26 watts

A type II level would finish working on the Dyson Sphere to fulfill energy demand. Proposed by late physicist Freeman Dyson, a Dyson Sphere is a megastructure that surrounds the sun and captures a large percentage of its power output. It would consist of orbiting solar collectors around the parent star.

This culture will be more advance than type I and will be able to utilize all the available resources found on the planet. Teleportation will be adopted, and people will be able to control the planetary orbits. For the first time, humans will expand their hands across the whole solar system.

By the time humans have jumped to another star system. Holograms would feel real. If everything moves right, we will see the first time traveling in the distant future. Such an enormous supply of energy will give us the power to develop artificial planets.

No achievement will satisfy us. Present-past-future, everything would be the same.

TYPE III: GALACTIC CIVILIZATION

ENERGY CONSUMPTION: 10^40

Capable of harnessing the total energy output of the galaxy, this civilization would be capable of doing intergalactic travel through Wormhole at the galactic scale.

This type is the final type of civilization originally proposed by Kardashev. This civilization will spread all over the galaxy and would be able to move planets from one solar system to another.

Their primary energy output comes from stars, black holes, and white holes if they exist.

There would be no physical limitation left in the Universe that we cannot cross. Telekinesis would be a piece of cake for humans. The human would slowly become omnipotent and will be able to create their own simulated Universe in real. Dimensions can be easily shifted. Time could be modified. Gradually we will reach a stage where humans would find the ultimate source of Universe: The ultimate truth of consciousness.

Don't You Feel Like GOD? Well, the probability of humans surviving until this culture is tiny. According to Carl Sagan, we are roughly over 0.7-0.8% of the KI level. We are right now a lot closer to KI(KARDASHEV SCALE TYPE I) civilization. We stand a long way from our ultimate dream. According to the Great Filter Hypothesis(The Great Filter, concerning with the Fermi paradox, it prevents non-living matter from undergoing abiogenesis, in time, to expanding lasting life as measured by the Kardashev scale), many life-destroying screens are waiting for us. These filters can overrun as catastrophic events that can destroy life forms from us. Once we prevent trespass the filters, we would see the bright side of life.

Shifting our earth's energy requirement to renewable forms and probably creation of Dyson Sphere will provide us a significant kickstart to our civilization in the bassinet of cosmos. If tight, we could start by building Dyson Swamps around the Sun.

Started with a little thought, this theory proffers a big chance to discover the ultimate truth of the Universe. Higher stages will take us to singularity. Not only technological but also psychological. A point from where could never return. Humans would lift off their temporal forms. Evolution will be at its peak. Look around and observe. Maybe that's the edge or the start of a new period.