Will we witness the transition from a type 0 to a type I civilization in 100 years?

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You are lucky to live in a portion of the world which had equally grisly religious warfare centuries ago and the wounds have largely healed. Much of the rest of the world is not so fortunate.

Fortunately this "much of the rest of the world", even if we were to include the US, is responsible for significantly less than half of the world's economic productivity.

For progressing to next level of civilization it is not the head count that makes a part of the world significant. It is productive capacity and command of resources.

Even amongst the parts of the world retarded by religion, most religions don't much threaten areas outside of its own traditional shit hole. It is only evengelizing religions like Islam, and above all christianity, that directly threaten not only its own traditional shit hole, but seek to expand its baleful shadow to smother wherever human progress may that may be found.

This sounds like a completely pointless post to actually write on here, but I foudn it interesting.

Not sure how many people have played Mass Effect, or even read all the codex entries on the various games, but in the first one there is a codex about the economy and political structure of Earth.

In the game the Earth of ME has a de facto split between the advanced nations and those that are poor and destitute (they list Africa and the Middle East if I remember correctly as natural resources on the earth became redundant).

I think this idea in the game lends weight to your thesis; if the overall output is high, even if that's localised in specific areas, then really, one can bypass all the economies who are not only less advanced, but refuse to become more advanced

I recently watched a BBC articles here about the economies of Africa that are beginning to develop in the 21st century. Ethiopia is one the worlds fastest growing economies today thanks for inward investment from its own government and from foreign aid. IT is beginning to move from subsitance farming to commerical production, going through its own effective industrial revolution. It even has a commodoies stock exchange now!

A stock exchange, in a country where in the past few decades millions have been effected by serious drought, famine and corruption. Naturally, Etheopia still has some massive problem s(mainly political and economic corruption), but it's evidence that change is beginning.