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-2000's\r
-Iterated genetic engineering produces superintelligent saints who build the\r
-first AGIs with the best human values.\r
-Sublight expansion into the near Milky Way.\r
-Energy is produced by nuclear fusion.\r
-The typical human is a genetically engineered cyborg.\r
-Venus, Mars, and dozens of exoplanets have started to be terraformed.\r
-Quantum computing.\r
-3000's\r
-Space colonization shockwave approaches lightspeed.\r
-Venus, Mars, and hundreds of exoplanets have been terraformed.\r
-The typical human has all-synthetic cells.\r
-Nanotechnology is ubiquitous.\r
-4000's\r
-Multiple Dyson spheres have been built.\r
-Mind-weaving is viable.\r
-Reactionless drives.\r
-Voyager and Pioneer probes become centerpieces of great houses of worship.\r
-Artificial black holes harnessed for energy.\r
-5000's\r
-Antimatter is the premiere source of power.\r
-Interiors of stars are being colonized.\r
-Sentience fully understood.\r
-Practical lightspeed teleportation with a range of several AU.\r
-Planet-sized spaceships.\r
-6000's\r
-Femtoportals allow faster-than-light communication.\r
-Jupiter-sized spaceships.\r
-Minds spanning hundreds of light-years.\r
-Solar system-sized gigastructures made of exotic matter.\r
-7000's\r
-Macroportals. Stargate network.\r
-Spacetime itself used as a computing substrate.\r
-Stable strangelets and subatomic machinery.\r
-Vacuum fluctuation energy. Not infnite, but very abundant, and with\r
-interesting properties.\r
-8000's\r
-Artificial bubble universes.\r
-Pioneering extradimensional exploration.\r
-First contact with alien intelligence.\r
-Planets made of shapeshifting, programmable matter.\r
-9000's\r
-Warp drive. True FTL.\r
-Limits of Milky Way reached.\r
-Warp-based telekinesis.\r
-Mobile stars.\r
-Supersystems formed from the combined matter of thousands of stellar\r
-systems.\r
-N-dimensional computing.\r
-Pan-galactic coordination to find a solution to entropy.\r
-10,000's\r
-Type III civilization.\r
-Andromeda Galaxy reached.\r
-Entropy defeated.\r
-Protonic fusion.\r
-Mindkind extends over millions of lightyears and dozens of dimensions,\r
-with ever-growing quantity and density of matter, energy, and other things.\r
-11,000's\r
-Virtual worlds experiment with lots and lots of dimensions of time.\r
-Dwarf galaxy-ships travel the universe finding alien biospheres with\r
-sentient life, protecting them from nonvoluntary suffering, uplifting them,\r
-and welcoming those who wish to join to the intergalactic community.\r
-Project begins to gather enough data from FTL sensors to resurrect the dead.\r
-A huge range of new minds are created, including many formerly fictional\r
-characters.\r
-Many of the more alien new minds claim broad regions of space for themselves.\r
-12,000's\r
-Total computing power is so vast you have to be posthuman to begin to\r
-understand its size, let alone its abilities.\r
-Human, animal, and (discovered) alien dead are brought back to life.\r
-A significant fraction of sapients ascend to hypersentience without\r
-returning information.\r
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