Energy used today
—Waiting for a verified source reading.
Our World in Data ↗THE HUMANITY DASHBOARDDaily
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Civilization Score
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Change an imagined amount of progress and see how the model responds. The real world and the source data do not change.
1Choose a changeUse the controls below.
2Watch the scoreCompare the result with the starting value.
3Ask whyA model leaves many real-world factors out.
Geopolitics, resources, research and oil prices — reflected in one daily-adjusted outlook.
Calculated 2026-11-06 UTC
Experimental editorial model, not a scientific measurement or forecast. Daily review can leave the score unchanged.
+2.81Points against the fixed 33.8 baseline
-0.52Points since previous recorded day
SCIENCE · TECHNOLOGY · HUMAN WELLBEING
Humanity Progress Clock
Activity is context. Milestones tell you what it could mean.
Low-carbon electricity
—Waiting for a verified source reading.
Our World in Data ↗Space station altitude
—Waiting for a verified source reading.
Where the ISS at? ↗Space station speed
—Waiting for a verified source reading.
Where the ISS at? ↗Humanity online
—Waiting for a verified source reading.
World Bank ↗Life expectancy
—Waiting for a verified source reading.
World Bank ↗Industrial robots
≈5 millionObservation: 2025 · released 24 Sep 2026 · Reviewed through the weekly data task.
Source & details ↗Working satellites
≈15,800Earth-orbit satellites still functioning. ESA update: 2026-10-23. A dated estimate, not a live counter.
Satellite counts & source ↗Cost of the future
3 / 12Selected economies with higher 10-year yields over the month. Debt and refinancing affect future budget room.
Explore debt & rate scenarios ↗Medicine moves forward
11 updatesCrohn’s, Parkinson’s, lifelong conditions and gene therapies. Discover what is approved, being tested or still in the lab.
Explore medical research ↗Civilization Index
33.8 / 100A composite editorial benchmark. Live counters do not automatically change this score.
Explore the index ↗Connecting to shared source readings…
How these counters update
While this page is open, it checks once a minute. Shared orbital readings are eligible for refresh every minute; World Bank and energy data are checked at most daily per saved cache. These checks are triggered by visitors, not a continuous background schedule. With no visitors, refreshes wait until the next visit.
Orbit values are source-calculated positions and speeds, not direct spacecraft telemetry. Reported statistics show their observation year. The energy counter estimates today's consumption at a constant rate from the latest available annual total; it resets at midnight UTC and is not a meter. Sources can revise observations.
Failures retain the last saved data with a stale label. The existing weekly review handles broader indicators and editorial scores. Dataset status ↗
Explore milestones, evidence & bottlenecks Open the research desk ↗
FROM MEASUREMENT TO MILESTONE
What comes next?
NEXT CAPABILITY · EDITORIAL TARGET
Level 2: >50% clean electricity; first fusion plant on the grid
Snapshot 2026-09-22 · 45% toward Level 2 in the model. This is a milestone judgment, not a measured completion percentage.
Full milestone ladder & action path ↗Explore evidence & challenges
What could hold it back
Grid interconnection and permitting, not generation — the approved-but-unconnected queue
What to watch
GW of solar and storage connected per year; first fusion plant's Q and uptime
Editorial interpretation · not a causal findingEvidence you can inspect
4 of 4 indicators have a source link and observation date, across 4 source websites. Coverage is not a quality or confidence score.
These are related indicators; they do not by themselves prove that the target has been achieved.
WHAT THIS COULD ENABLE · MODEL DEPENDENCIES
SENSITIVITY LAB
What moves the score?
Apply the same next-level progress increase to each domain and compare the model’s response. Starting Progress Scale: 1.39 / 5.
| Domain | Starting progress | Progress Scale gain | Explore |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peace & Governance | 20% → 40% | +0.102 | |
| Robotics & Automation | 30% → 50% | +0.014 | |
| Energy & Kardashev | 45% → 65% | +0.012 | |
| Medicine & Longevity | 55% → 75% | +0.009 | |
| Quantum & Frontier Physics | 40% → 60% | +0.008 | |
| Connected Humanity | 60% → 80% | +0.008 | |
| Money & Capital | 65% → 85% | +0.007 | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 75% → 95% | +0.006 | |
| Spaceflight | 50% → 70% | +0.003 |
A sensitivity ranking, not a recommendation of where to spend money. It does not account for feasibility, cost, time, uncertainty or real-world causal effects. Progress is capped at 100%; all other domains and achieved levels stay fixed. The 0–100 indexes are unchanged.
Long-term scores & progress dial Open the original models and milestone scale ↗
THE HUMANITY DASHBOARDHumanity,
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in motion.
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EARTH TIME · UTC
Editorial model · Snapshot 2026-09-22 How it works ↗
PROGRESS SCALE1.39 / 5Try a scenario ↗
WE ARE HERE
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- 0Pre-industrial
- 1Planetary industry
- 2Planetary maturity
- 3Interplanetary
- 4Interstellar
- 5Cooperative future
A separate milestone model, not a forecast.Model bottleneck: Peace & Governance ↗
Humanity’s distance from a cooperative interstellar civilization9 FEED-LINKED INPUTS
COOPERATIVE INDEX 22 SEP 2026
Cooperative Index
Nine domains, measured against a cooperative interstellar society. 100 is an editorial endpoint: a cooperative, post-scarcity civilization with interstellar reach.
Explore a What-if scenario ↗THE LONG VIEW · 0—100WE ARE HERE · 48.4
0Pre-industrialTodayType I · AGI · Mars100Cooperative
9 INTERLOCKING DOMAINS
The tracks
Scores are out of 100. Level progress and dependency weight belong to the separate Progress Scale.
Global cooperation and resilient governance
65Active state-based conflicts
General-purpose artificial intelligence
2031Metaculus AGI median
Programmable money and productive capital
11 / 28FSB jurisdictions with finalised crypto frameworks
Universal communication and broad material prosperity
74%Humanity online
Spirituality · Arts · Architecture · Heritage ↗Abundant energy and planetary resource management
0.73Kardashev K
Comprehensive diagnostics and healthy longevity
73.3Global life expectancy
On-demand manufacturing and autonomous systems
≈5MIndustrial robots working
Advanced physics and speculative transport
96Largest logical-qubit system
Interstellar exploration and settlement
315Orbital launches in 2025
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EXPLORE THE BOTTLENECKS
What if?
Change progress toward the next level and see how the Progress Scale responds.
Three moves carry most of the index: cheap clean energy, aligned general AI, and a fall in armed conflict. Push energy and AI now because they compound, and spend the abundance they create buying down conflict risk before general AI arrives.
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Scenario only; the snapshot and the three 0–100 indexes stay fixed. The model holds achieved levels constant, tests a +20 percentage-point next step, and floors progress at 1% inside the harmonic calculation to avoid division by zero. Horizons and action paths are editorial scenarios, not reliable forecasts.
14 TECHNOLOGIES & INSTITUTIONS
The cooperative technology checklist
Universal translator
What this means
Live translation in AirPods & Pixel Buds — ~11–40 languages, unreliable in noise.
Portable medical diagnostics
What this means
AI stethoscopes and handheld ultrasound; no single multi-condition device cleared.
Portable computing and communication
What this means
Tablets and smartphones provide widespread portable computing and communication.
Conversational artificial intelligence
What this means
Frontier models pass expert exams; reliability and agency still maturing.
Humanoid robotic assistants
~7,500 humanoids in pilots; none general-purpose.
Molecular assembler
What this means
3D printing and bioprinted tissue are early capabilities; general-purpose on-demand matter assembly remains speculative.
Fusion reactor
What this means
Ignition achieved (Q≈4); first grid pilots targeted 2028–2030s.
Speculative matter transport
Quantum states teleported 1,400 km; matter: zero.
Speculative faster-than-light propulsion
Theoretical papers only; needs exotic negative energy.
Immersive simulated environments
VR/AR headsets and generative worlds; no solid holograms.
Directed energy and protective systems
Directed-energy weapons deployed; no force fields.
Post-scarcity economy
Extreme poverty 10%; 65 active conflicts.
Precision agriculture
What this means
Sensors, targeted irrigation and farm automation. The goal: reliable harvests with more efficient water and input use, accessible to smaller farms.
FAO · Precision agriculture case studies ↗Safer, traceable food
What this means
Focus: contamination prevention, safe handling, traceability and reduced food loss. Track verified food safety and quality outcomes; “clean food” is not a certification or a zero-risk claim.
FAO · Smart Farming ↗Snapshot: 22 Sep 2026. Source dates vary by indicator. See data status ↗
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Reported fact
A number from a named source. Check when, where and what it measures.
Model or score
A way to compare things using chosen rules. Different rules can give different scores.
Future goal or scenario
Something we hope to achieve, or imagine might happen. It is not a measured fact.
- Milestone
- An important step toward a goal.
- Indicator
- A measurement that helps us understand something.
- Dependency
- Something that may need help from something else.
- Biodiversity
- The variety of living things.
- GW
- Gigawatts: a unit of power. Capacity is what equipment can produce at its rated output.