What Economic System Would A Type One Civilization Have?

MayCaesar

I would imagine that there would be no economical system as such. At some point in our technological evolution, our technology will become self-replicating (and I think that moment will coincide with the period of us starting to get the most out of our star system) - and then there will be no need for the economy (i.e. the system of resource exchange), because every individual will be completely self-sufficient, able to quickly produce anything they could possibly need out of the resources they already have.

Another scenario is that, rather than our technology becoming self-replicating, we ourselves will become the technology by merging with advanced AIs. In this case, it is impossible to tell what economical system, if any, will exist, because a machine mind (even if merged with an organic mind, which in itself, essentially, a machine) moves away exponentially fast from the original programming, and after a few evolution "cycles" it is impossible to recognize the original program in the developed AI.

I also would not fantasize about it realistically, because technology evolves in very unexpected ways. 200 years ago no one could even imagine that we would have something akin to the global system of communications, and nowadays we have far more than that: we are exploring space, we are having real-time video conferences in our rooms, we are exploring depths of oceans with advanced robots. I do not think anyone can realistically predict what our world will look like 200 years from now.