# What if We Could Automate Invention?  ## Metadata - Author: [[Matt Clancy]] - Full Title: What if We Could Automate Invention? - Category: #articles - URL: https://mattsclancy.substack.com/p/what-if-we-could-automate-invention ## Highlights - If it takes a century to get from 0.6 to 0.7 (roughly where we are today), then it takes twenty years to get from 0.7 to 0.8, four years to get from 0.8 to 0.9, and under one year to go from 0.9 to 1.0! This acceleration continues at a blistering pace: once we reach a Type 1 civilization, we’ll get to a galaxy-spanning Type 3 civilization in less than three months! ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h5feghznkgm2e0ssy8d7ss4y)) - Note: If robots did all the inventing