{"id":88343,"date":"2019-03-03T13:03:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/what-our-civilization-needs-is-a-billion-year-plan"},"modified":"2019-03-03T13:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T21:03:29","slug":"what-our-civilization-needs-is-a-billion-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/what-our-civilization-needs-is-a-billion-year-plan","title":{"rendered":"What our civilization needs is a billion-year plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/By3VfFs-oHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2012<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Enlarge | + <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" title=\"Karashev-Type-2\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-our-civilization-needs-is-a-billion-year-plan4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"313\"><b><center>Artist\u2019s concept of a Kardashev Type 2 civilization (credit: Chris Cold)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>Lt Col Garretson \u2014 one of the USAF\u2019s most farsighted and original thinkers \u2014 has been at the forefront of USAF strategy on the long-term future in projects such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/welcome-to-2035-the-age-of-surprise\">Blue Horizons<\/a> (on <\/em>KurzweilAI<em> \u2014 see video), Energy Horizons, Space Solar Power, the AF Futures Game, the USAF Strategic Environmental Assessment, and the USAF RPA Flight Plan. Now in this exclusive to <\/em>KurzweilAI<em>, he pushes the boundary of long-term thinking about humanity\u2019s survival out to the edge \u2026 and beyond. \u2014 Ed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Air Force or the U.S. government.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t enough just to plan for two or 20, or even the fabled Chinese 100 year periods. We need to be thinking and planning on the order of billions of years. Our civilization needs inter-generational plans and goals that span as far out as we can forecast significant events.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/what-our-civilization-needs-is-a-billion-year-plan\">Continue reading \u201cWhat our civilization needs is a billion-year plan\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2012 Enlarge | + Artist\u2019s concept of a Kardashev Type 2 civilization (credit: Chris Cold) Lt Col Garretson \u2014 one of the USAF\u2019s most farsighted and original thinkers \u2014 has been at the forefront of USAF strategy on the long-term future in projects such as Blue Horizons (on KurzweilAI \u2014 see video), Energy Horizons, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,31,1633,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-policy","category-solar-power","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}