Delve into the transformative possibilities that a Type 2 civilization would bring to humanity's future. Based on the ...

Experts estimate it may take another century or two to become a full Type 1 civilization. From there, the journey becomes increasingly ambitious and mind-bending.

Type 2 or “stellar” civilization: can obtain and store all the energy its parent star releases, probably through things like Dyson spheres.

A Type 2 civilization would be capable of utilizing all the energy emitted by its parent star - not just what reaches its planet.

He and others like Freeman Dyson have proposed that we should use astronomy to look for the visible and detectable actions of some of those Dyson Sphere capable (Kardashev Type 2) civilizations. He ...

A type 1 civilization would harness all the energy available on one planet, generalized as 10^16 watts or greater. A type 2 civilization would be able to harness the power of an entire star, which ...