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The scale was originally designed in 1964 by Russian Astrophysicist Nicolai Kardashev who looked for signs of extraterrestial life within the cosmic signals.

It was based in the classification of three 03 classes, each with a level based on the management of energy:

·       Type I     (10^16 Watts)

·       Type II     (10^26 Watts)

·       Type III    (10^36 Watts)

Othernastronomers have extended the scale to Type IV (10⁴⁶ Watts) and Type . These additions consider both access to energy and the amount of knowledge to which civilizations have access.(1)

The Watt unit actually comes from the surname of the engineer and mathematician James Watt (1736-1819) , a scientist who did an important job creating the steam engine. The Watt or Watt symbol is the power unit of the International System of Units. Its symbol is W. It is the equivalent of 1 Joules per second.

If we look at the Kardashev type I scale, ancivilization on that scale has managed to use all the solar energy it receivesnfrom the sun or 10¹⁶ Watts, in other words 10, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 Watts, without any doubt a very big ammount of energy. With this level of energy, we could controlnor even modify the climate, hurricanes, tides, etc. At this scale our present civilization is still thousands of times smaller in scale in terms of energy production and therefore could not be classified as one Type I civilization, we are still far from managing that capacity.

Our civilization can be classified as a type 0.6. (2)  A type 0 civilization only uses the energy and raw materials it extracts from organic matter and natural resources such asnwood, coal or oil. It is really primitive compared to Type I, II, III, IV, Vncivilizations. We observe how the phenomena of global warming, tides, tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones, tornados destroy everything in their path without human beings being able to control the course of these or at least to predict them.  Maybe in the span of a century we could become a type I civilization if we learn to live in peace and harmony between humans and nature. Humanity is in a very delicate balance because there is no guarantee that everything achieved as ancivilization can be perpetuated in order to become a type I civilization.

Our present planetary Internet system could be classified as a system that could be called type I if we could make a parallel with the Kardashev scale. Similarly we could apply it in parallel to an economic system that emerges to handle economies in large clusters or blocks globaly, for example the economy of the TPP cluster (Transpacific Association Agreement). Some companies or economies would be of the type I scale.