barrow scale - BLOGS - Blacksciencefictionsociety2024-03-29T15:03:43Zhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/barrow+scaleNano, to Planck...https://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/profiles/blogs/nano-to-planck2021-06-10T10:00:00.000Z2021-06-10T10:00:00.000ZReginald L. Goodwinhttps://blacksciencefictionsociety.com/members/ReginaldLGoodwin<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="710" alt="9070624269?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Topics: Barrow Scale, Kardashev Scale, Exoplanets, SETI</span></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"> </a></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">The Kardashev Scale is a discussion, and ranking of civilizations based on energy output:</span></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"> </a></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><strong>Type I:</strong> able to marshal energy resources for communications on a planet-wide scale, equivalent to the entire present power consumption of the human race, or about 10<sup>16</sup> watts. Here, <a href="http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/K/Kardashevciv.html" target="_blank">Carl Sagan begged to differ</a>, due to power gradation, we're more like (on his measure) a 0.7 civilization, or 7 x 10<sup>15</sup> watts. We have pockets of deployed resources, but definitely not "planet-wide," else there would be no economic distinctions: east/south side to west side; 1st and 3rd worlds. Perhaps we could edge up our score with renewable alternatives?</span></span><br /> <span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><strong>Type II:</strong> surpasses this by a factor of approximately ten billion, making available 10<sup>26</sup> watts, by exploiting the total energy output of its central star, using a <a href="http://earthsky.org/space/what-is-a-dyson-sphere" target="_blank">Dyson sphere</a>.</span></span><br /> <span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><strong>Type III:</strong> evolved enough to tap the energy resources of an entire galaxy, ~ 10<sup>36</sup> watts.</span></span><br /> <span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><strong>Type IV and V </strong><a href="http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/the-kardashev-scale-type-i-ii-iii-iv-v-civilization/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"> </a></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Professor John D. Barrow is an astrophysicist and mathematician at Cambridge. His take is going not from the aspect of starships, instead of from ever-shrinking technology to make advanced control of energy, and technology possible.</span></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"> </a></p><img class="wp-image-1662" src="https://physicsandnano.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/image-1.png?w=682" alt="" /><a href="https://cadelllast.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/last-c-2014-deep-future-of-big-history1.pdf" target="_blank">DEEP FUTURE of BIG HISTORY: Cultural Evolution, Techno-culture, and Omega Civilization</a>, Cadell Last<p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"> </a></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">On the Barrow Scale, we're clearly in the Barrow Three minus or nanotechnology. Arthur C. Clarke said <em>"any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," </em>and kind of gives a runway that is the <a href="https://physicsandnano.com/2021/06/10/nano-to-planck/" target="_blank">impossible-to-design</a> Trek technobabble.</span></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"> </a></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Could we go further?</span></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"> </a></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Well, that depends on whether the purveyors of this technological node haven't blown ourselves to smithereens, [climate] changed ourselves to death, or ignored another zoonotic virus and comforted ourselves with throwing caution to the winds, taking vitamins, and jogging to the self-made apocalypse. Sorry for being cynical.</span></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"> </a></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Also, each technological node is driven by industry, and at the top of that are <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Nation-Corporate-Criminals-Corruption/dp/0307952568" target="_blank">apex predators</a> also known as CEOs/billionaires who have a propensity to <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax" target="_blank">not share</a> the resources they plunder. Also after seeing the Netflix documentary: "<a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224" target="_blank">The Social Dilemma</a>," I wonder what an AI-enabled-Planck-technology Internet, or economy would LOOK like, and who would it ultimately favor? Billionaires <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/2021/04/15/should-there-be-billionaires-ethical-question/" target="_blank">don't occur naturally</a>, and trillionaires, quadrillion, or quintillion-empowered varieties would likely be tyrannical, and obscene.</span></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"> </a></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Though this tech through-line is ambitious, bold, imaginative, it has a Pollyannaish feel to it, dependent on the benevolence of our fellow human beings, and a shared vision of humanity's progress.</span></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"> </a></p><p><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Then, there are those apex predators that won't pay taxes, give a damn, or build starships so they can first ride on for their <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/06/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-musk-branson/619140/" target="_blank">three minutes</a> of narcissistic pleasure. Star Trek and a United Federation of Planets post-scarcity is still a Gene Roddenberry dream.</span></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9070624269,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p></p><p></p></div>