Break civilization into ten measurable scales. Each runs L1 to L5 — the question is never "will it happen" but "which level are we on."
Energy. From fire to fusion, from planet to Dyson sphere. L1 burns wood, L3 splits atoms, L5 wraps a star. Energy level sets a civilization's radius of action.
Longevity. From curing to slowing, from slowing to reversing. When death turns from inevitability into engineering problem, social structure gets rewritten.
Brain-Computer Interface. From thought-typing to memory expansion, from repair to enhancement. Bandwidth decides how deep humans and machines fuse.
Humanoid Robots. From tools to labor, from labor to companions. When machines take over physical work, the definition of human is forced to update.
Blockchain. From ledger to finance, from finance to automated organizations. When rules can execute themselves, states and corporations begin to liquefy.
The ten scales are facets of one ladder: each level climbed makes the next cheaper. Most people overestimate ten years and underestimate a hundred.
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