According
to Dr. Kaku, the creation of a planetary civilization (global civilization) is
the greatest transition in human history.
As we are in the middle of this transition, the people living today are the most important of 5000 generations of humans that emerged 100,000 years go.
Physicists rank human civilizations by consumed energies. First, during stone/hunting age is only 1/5 horsepower; second during agriculture age is horsepower; Third by Industrial revolution, hundreds horsepower by steam engines; Forth current Information age, huge power.
In 1964, Russian astrophysicist Kardashev defined three levels of civilizations, based on the amount of energy consumed: Type I = all energy attained on the planet Earth; Type II = all energy radiated by the Sun; Type III = all energy of our entire Galaxy. According to this ranking, our current civilization is not planetary (still Type Zero) but in the process of transition to Type I civilization.
As we are in the middle of this transition, the people living today are the most important of 5000 generations of humans that emerged 100,000 years go.
Physicists rank human civilizations by consumed energies. First, during stone/hunting age is only 1/5 horsepower; second during agriculture age is horsepower; Third by Industrial revolution, hundreds horsepower by steam engines; Forth current Information age, huge power.
In 1964, Russian astrophysicist Kardashev defined three levels of civilizations, based on the amount of energy consumed: Type I = all energy attained on the planet Earth; Type II = all energy radiated by the Sun; Type III = all energy of our entire Galaxy. According to this ranking, our current civilization is not planetary (still Type Zero) but in the process of transition to Type I civilization.
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