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.

Michio Kaku mentioned in his book Physics of the Future: "Type I civilizations harvest planetary power utilizing all the sunlight that strikes their planet. They can, perhaps, harness the power of volcanoes, manipulate the weather, control earthquakes, and build cities on the ocean. All planetary power is within their control.”

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: Interplanetary and close interstellar. Spacecraft approaching light speeds and possible natural wormholes are found.

Quality of life (government):


 * Plutocracy: a scarcity age ruled by the aristocratic elite or wealthy
 * Post-scarcity age: the end of plutocracy
 * Noogenesis: possible advancement of sapience into global consciousness or a hive mind
 * 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
 * Eugenocracy: bioengineered genetic superiority; will cause eugenics wars with humans
 * Mechanocracy: machine and AI sentience
 * Meritocracy: rule by the intelligent and worthy, as opposed to traditional politics

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)