Kardashev index
0.717
Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1
AccelerationFour-dimensional view23 years ago
2004-02-04
Social Networks
Blogs, social networks, video sites and online shopping let ordinary people publish content and run shops, and the internet shifts from browsing to participation.
Art style · 1990s pixel art
Origin of Life on EarthDinosaurs and MammalsAI Agents
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Civilization metrics
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6.51Bpeople
1/1 of today
1.5×10¹³W
1/1 of today
1.3×10⁷floating-point operations per second per dollar (FLOP/s per $, nominal dollars)
1/6,367 of today
0.03 seconds
1 times faster than today
39,897km/h
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The sequence of the human genome is essentially complete. Source
Individuals can open online shops and shop online, bringing e-commerce to ordinary Chinese households. Source
Yang Liwei goes to space, making China the third country to achieve independent human spaceflight. Source
Escrow payments arrive on Taobao, solving the problem of trust in online shopping. Source
A real-name social network lets people maintain their relationships online. Source
Anyone can upload videos and watch them online. Source
Amazon launches the S3 storage service; storage and compute can be rented on demand. Source
Hinton and Salakhutdinov publish a method for training deep networks in Science. Source
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