Kardashev index
0.663
Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1
AccelerationFour-dimensional view69 years agoThe Space Age
1957-10-04
First Artificial Satellite
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1.
Art style · 1950s Space Age poster
Origin of Life on EarthDinosaurs and MammalsAI Agents
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2.89Bpeople
1/3 of today
4.3×10¹²W
1/5 of today
0.023floating-point operations per second per dollar (FLOP/s per $, nominal dollars)
1/3.57T of today
0.02 seconds
1 times faster than today
12,645km/h
1/3 of today
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Bell Labs publicly demonstrates the first practical photovoltaic cell. Source
The Soviet Obninsk plant goes online, the first to feed nuclear power into an electricity grid. Source
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project convenes, and artificial intelligence becomes a field of research. Source
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1. Source
Rosenblatt proposes the perceptron, a machine that learns from data. Source
Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit prototype. Source
Maiman builds the first laser at Hughes Research Laboratories. Source
Gagarin orbits the Earth once aboard Vostok 1. Source
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