Type I

A Type I or K1 civilization has mastered all the energy available to their home planet, available from a neighboring star. It extracts its energy, information, and raw materials from fission and fusion power, and renewable resources; is capable of interplanetary spaceflight and communication; mega-scale planetary engineering; medical breakthroughs to eliminate disease and slow ageing; multiplanetary government and interplanetary trade; species is tech augmented; but is still vulnerable to extinction.

Detail
Energy usage: 1016 W to 1026 W. Fission and fusion power. There is plenty of hydrogen in the oceans to sustain hydrogen fusion for millions of years at the consumption of 2kg/s. Space-based solar power dominates surface-based solar power and other renewable resources.

Estimated Population: 100 billion people (1011)

Existence is in 3d (with early 4d science) and 1r (reality)

Travel: Spacecraft approaching light speeds and possible natural wormholes are found.

Quality of life (government):


 * Post-scarcity age: money is not the be-all and end-all of existence
 * Noogenesis: advancement of sapience into global consciousness
 * e-Democracy: the use of the internet to digitally enhance and replace democracy
 * Hegemony: dominance of one state over others especially with planetary sprawl or alien influence
 * Futarchy: prediction markets are used to determine policies
 * Gerantocracy: ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population, due to anti-ageing
 * Dark enlightenment: anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, reactionary freedom of the people
 * Plutocracy: government by the elite or wealthy ruling class (age of scarcity)

State of forms: biological and augmented

WMD scale: nuclear

Longevity: 100 - 350+

Social issues:


 * Intelligence augmentation and genome tweaking
 * Dream twister or collective psychosomatic interface
 * Psionics or supported psychic phenomena
 * Robotic surrogacy or biological avatars
 * Space station mega structures (cities in space)

Industrial revolutions: asteroid mining, gas giant mining

Computing: zettascale (1021) and beyond.

Arguments: Robots, Cloning, Dominant proliferation

Social weakening: bourgeois behaviour and boredom due to elimination of manual labour (cured by psionics or intellectual and explorative pursuits)

Social dream: Eudaimonia where a species flourish, and are prosperous, happy and blessed

Class system: Superiority by natural ability via ethical calculus (allotment of priority in rated education by talent using giftedness in children as a social analyst)