The author stole some concepts from Michio Kaku such as the human race being at Level 1/2 and how talking to humans is like talking to ants.
Pretty sure neither of those are Kaku's ideas. I think Sagan proposed civilization classes and the people ant analogy is a bit older than Kaku.
Just finished reading the article. The author stole some concepts from Michio Kaku such as the human race being at Level 1/2 and how talking to humans is like talking to ants.