A very interesting post indeed @taskmaster4450.
But looking at Kardashev's idea of energy use, there is one factor that he did not include, or maybe I'm wrong here, but what I mean is efficiency.
How much you get out of a certain amount of energy, just look at the evolution of computing for example, you have several orders of magnitude more computing power in your pocket with your smartphone, compared to the supercomputers of the 70s, and they certainly used a lot more energy.
So I feel that only energy use alone can not determine what is advanced or not, and the productivity that we get from the energy we currently use are really growing very fast.
Not faster than our current growth of energy use, but there is another factor here too, namely the efficiency of energy extraction, the energy it takes to produce the energy we use, and that is also growing really fast.
And then we come to blockchain, also something that will make things more efficient.
So the real question here is, are we really going to arrive at the point where we use all energy on earth? Do we even want that to happen?
Thanks for a good post.
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