Re: Interesting concultural ideas

Muke Tever wrote:
>
>From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> > Some SETIite (Kardashev?) proposed the following classification of
> > technological civilizations:
> >
> > Type I Civilizations have mastered the energy resources of their planet
> > (we'd belong to this category).
>
>The sad part is, we *don't* belong to this category yet.  We don't,
>apparently,
>use anywhere near the full energy potential of our planet.
>
>"Kardaschev types"
>http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=760401
>
>"Type I civilization"
>http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=760412
Well, I don't think this classification is much use at all, but if you had
to put us into one of the categories it'd undoubtedly has to be Type I
(Kardashev's original scheme didn't, AFAIK, include the Type 0 mentioned
under your links).

                                                    Andreas

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