The engineers of reality

 This article has two purposes: 1) to demonstrate how we can bring about arch-anarchy and 2) to discuss, using science and futurism, some interesting futuristic technologies. Yes, I know the research time may seem long, but two points: 1) as I said in a previous article, immortality is closer than it seems, so we have all the time in the world. 2) the acceleration of change, an idea proposed by some of the best futurists, which states that innovation and progress do not occur linearly, but rather at an accelerated pace; basically, one innovation leads to another and accumulates like a snowball rolling down a mountain, meaning that advances in the future will come at an increasingly rapid pace.

A concept used by some futurists to measure the level of development of a civilization is the Kardashev Scale, which classifies a civilization's level of development according to its ability to utilize energy. Civilizations are categorized into three types: Type I (planetary energy), Type II (stellar energy), and Type III (galactic energy). Currently, humanity is considered a "Type 0" or "Type 0.7" civilization because it does not yet utilize all the energy of the planet. More recently, there have been some attempts to expand, such as Type IV (energy of its entire home universe), Type V (energy of multiple universes), and some have even created systems with about 20 levels.However, there is a system that goes in the opposite direction and makes much more sense.The microdimensional mastery proposed by John Barrow, and an idea of how to measure technological development, is an alternative to Kardashev's scale is the fact that humans (or other civilizations) have found it more economical to extend any abilities to manipulate their environment into smaller and smaller dimensions rather than larger and larger dimensions.

To better understand the reasoning, see this: There is now a trend in engineering called Miniaturization to reduce the size of components, devices, or systems without compromising their functionality or performance. Miniaturization allows for the manufacture of smaller, more efficient devices, which is why computers and other electronic devices from the 1950s to the present day are getting smaller and smaller, for example.

Miniaturization leads to microelectronics, the branch of electronics focused on the miniaturization of components and circuits (ICs), integrating millions or billions of transistors onto silicon chips on a micrometer scale (10⁻⁶ meters), the size of a bacterium or human cell. The next step was nanotechnology, where we treat atoms as building blocks with applications in electronic systems, pharmaceuticals, insecticidal cosmetics, among others. There are some theoretical future applications such as self-repairing materials, molecular assemblers to build materials atom by atom, and nanorobots that can deliver medication directly to diseased cells.Now, if a civilization develops by "thinking small," what is the next step in technological development? Let's do some extrapolations following the scale.

Technology	Typical Scale	Physical Domain	What Is Controlled	Essential Characterization
Picotechnology	~10⁻¹² m (1 pm)	Quantum Electrodynamics (QED)	Electrons and orbitals	Direct engineering of electronic wavefunctions; precise control of chemical bonds and electronic states.
Femtotechnology	~10⁻¹⁵ m (1 fm)	Nuclear physics	Protons, neutrons, and nuclear states	Complete mastery of the atomic nucleus; represents the pinnacle of classical nuclear engineering.
Attotechnology	~10⁻¹⁸ m (1 am)	Subnuclear physics	Internal structure of nucleons	Technology begins to directly probe the internal constituents of protons and neutrons.
Zeptotechnology	~10⁻²¹ m (1 zm)	Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)	Quasi-free quarks and gluons	Onset of effective control of the strong interaction; matter ceases to be nuclear and becomes quark–gluonic.
Yoctotechnology	~10⁻²⁴ m (1 ym)	Deep QCD	Quarks and gluons	Near-complete dominance of quark–gluon matter; direct engineering of confinement energy.

Following this geometric descent into the matrix of reality, we pass through Rontotechnology (10-27 m) and Quectotechnology (10-30m), stripping matter of any remaining classical properties. At this point, we are no longer manipulating particles, but rather the fundamental field fluctuations that give rise to them.

​But the ultimate logical extreme of Barrow’s microdimensional mastery is what we must call Plancktech (operating at the Planck scale, 10-35 meters).

The Planck scale is the absolute floor of our universe. Below this limit, the very concepts of space and time collapse. According to modern theoretical physics, at this resolution, matter completely dissolves into pure, interconnected nodes of information.

​This is where Arch-Anarchy ceases to be a philosophical protest and becomes a tangible cosmic reality.

​By achieving Plancktech, a civilization’s intelligence is no longer trapped inside the rules of the universe, playing with the cards it was dealt. Instead, it gains direct engineering access to the source code of the space-time fabric itself. If the laws of physics—such as gravity, speed limits, and thermodynamic entropy—are merely emergent properties of how this fundamental informational grid is organized, then Plancktech allows an intelligence to rewrite the grid.

With this, the laws of nature cease to be universal decrees and become program codes that we can freely manipulate.We can live forever, alter universal constants, and build our own universes with our own laws. A civilization with Planckian technology is, for all intents and purposes, omnipotent.