Imagine an advanced alien civilization.

It's hard for me to imagine without some technologies. It must have some forms of AI, it must have some forms of robust smart contracts, it must have encryption.

Are they using paper money? Paper ballots for elections? What else seems implausible?

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

- Antimatter reactors
- Zero-point energy extraction
- Warp drive
- Holographic communication
- Genetic engineering
- Regenerative medicine
- Energy shields