Perhaps, he suggests,
a technological civilisation that lasted for millions of years would not be typical.
His main focus was with movement and machines, which often satirized
technological civilisation.
The idea is that
a technological civilisation capable of building megastructures that collect all the energy radiated by a star would produce thermal leakage at infrared wavelengths.
Alastair Malcolm says extraterrestrials may be shy of contact with us out of fear of
another technological civilisation (Letters, 3...
But that record will not be absent in 100,000 years, so long as
technological civilisation endures.
A Carrington - like event may be dangerous to
our technological civilisation, but obviously there has not been a superflare capable of wiping out life on Earth for billions of years.
Maybe, he suggested in the same journal, modern humans are typical of
technological civilisations, and destroy either their planet, or themselves, almost as soon as they exploit technology.
Not exact matches
We have no right to haul up the
technological ladder our
civilisation has climbed to advance itself materially.
When considering signs of
civilisation that could be visible around distant worlds, many people picture those that require extreme
technological prowess, such as giant lasers or Dyson spheres — huge structures that harvest power from a star.
They put an innocent question: if there had been an advanced
technological and industrial
civilisation on Earth several hundred million years ago, how could anyone know?