My civilization tech levels. Help and feedback?

[Maximum7]

This is my predicted future timeline of my RPG world


1. The Post-Information Age
-not too far in the future. Maybe 20 years
2. The Fusion Age
-the discovery of sustainable fusion power ushers in a new Era of unlimited energy and the end of fossil fuels
3. Nano Age
-Nanotechnology truly takes off and permeates every aspect of life
4. Interstellar Age
-With the discovery of Faster-than-light travel, humans can now explore the galaxy
5. Intergalactic Age
-After learning how to transverse the void between galaxies, humanity explores the universe
6.Post-Intergalactic Age
-Humanity begins to settle and inhabits all parts of the universe.
7. Energy Age
-Humanity learns how to convert themselves to pure energy and exist in their own designer universes.
7+. The Big Crunch
-The universe ends and a new one is born in its place
This is how I envision the future. Except for the 7+ Big Crunch Era, can you help me think of 10 inventions/technologies/concepts? Thanks. Also if you disagree with the levels, feel free and voice your opinions but I don't want to change them

 

[Morrus]

Which era does the solar system get colonized in? Pre- FTL?


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[Maximum7]

Yes

 

[Eltab]

You will find Larry Niven's Known Space universe helpful.

1) The Cure For Cancer. After an R&D effort modelled on the Manhattan Project and Project Apollo.
1) Jihadi-ism eliminated from Islam. This process is philosophical and social as well as military.
1) Unexpected (positive) side-effects to the above provide an on-ramp to pull the remaining nations that are mired in the Third World into Developing World status. This does not 'eliminate poverty' but makes it obvious that staying that way means it's being done on purpose.
1) Mankind returns to the Moon and builds permanent infrastructure. Mines for materials that can be used in space program (because 1/6 the gravity is cheaper to haul stuff up out of). Radio telescope at point farthest away from Earth to insulate against civilization's radio noise. Basic science experiments that don't work in an atmosphere. International Historic Park where Neil Armstrong left that footprint.
1) Satellites at Lunar Trojan points turn into "cell phone towers" and a chance to experiment with Dyson spheres, XL construction in 0-gravity, &c.
1) Industrial facilities built in Earth orbit, later on Moon.
1) Research into Global Warming provides scientific principles for Weather Control (or at least Influence) capabilities.
1) Nearly universal Internet access, physically speaking. There is no such thing as an intellectual backwater.
1.95) Who woulda thunk? - The physical principles needed to create a working controllable fusion reaction can be discovered only after experiments performed in zero-gravity.

2) Fusion ramjet - interstellar motor that can carry a bus-full of Voyager space probes to nearby stars. With an AI to help pick targets for the probes, scan an entire solar system's worth of planets / moons, then radio results back to Earth.
2) Fusion power plant can use gas giant atmospheres as fuel, therefore Jupiter's moons become potential colony worlds.
2) Inevitably, somebody figures out that letting a fusion plant run wild creates a VERY BIG bang. Somebody tries it - maybe as a war-stopper, maybe as a terror political statement. (I would place this event on an interplanetary colony, not on Earth.)
2.95) Lunar radio telescope discovers something about the universe that enables another technological leap - warp drive? - that matures later.