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TYPE 0 CIVILIZATION

TYPE 0 CIVILIZATION

 Michio Kaku 3 types of Civilizations

TYPE 0 CIVILIZATION

As we humans fight for sustainability and survival of our species on this planet, we need to understand that the human race is at a crucial point of its evolutionary process. While we are helping to prolong life, create medicine and robots, increase our knowledge and energy sources we are also sucking our planet dry of all the natural resources that it has for us.
"We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.", Michio Kaku:
One of the most fascinating aspect of science is its faith in trusting the proof. And all the same time also having the ability to visualise things that are not yet proven. Hence working together with what has been proven and what can be proven. And based on today’s technological advancements, A LOT has been proven as far as the human ability to Create is concerned and A LOT can be conceived and anticipated; things and ideas that used to be in the paradigm of magic or science fiction once are now EXIST!
The downside of it all though is all the waste product of this advancement. Humans have reached a critical point where along with all the scientific advancement a huge part of mankind is still under the poverty line, and yet another big part is madly in love with consumerism. According to one my favourite Theoretical Physicist,” Michio Kaku” the next 100 years are crucial for our existence as a species. The coming century or two will for sure determine whether mankind will survive, or seize to exist, and not just that, but also weather our survival would remain a type O civilization or advance into a more evolved life form!
It has been assumed that as a civilization grows physically and technologically, its demands of energy consumption's grown rapidly. As is the case with our planet currently that the population is growing of humans and so are the needs and demands for the various factors that are associated with it, e.g. energy, food, water, land, machines etc. In 1964 Kardashev Scale was formulated by a Russian scientist “Niklolai Kardashev”, and it defines or assumes the usable energy at the disposal of a civilization. Kardashev assumed 3 classes, and now 5 are being considered, where energy and access to knowledge all come together.

We as a human race currently have not even made to the first scale yet, but we are able to “assume” it. We only sustain our needs for energy from dead pants and animals on earth, and that makes us a low Type 0 civilization.  The ability to harness energy from the available neighbouring star, to controlling that energy and going up a few scales through cyborgs and making our civilization immune to extinction and inter galactic species, in order to become a type 5 civilization the notions of Gods might be brought back into the assumptions as, we would need to act like or be like them. Not only having all the knowledge at our disposal but all the possibly accessible energy of the universe and the complete control over it.

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