This is actually incredibly interesting.

Instead of saying that maybe we are the first to reach this tech/development level, I'd like to say that we're [i]one of[/i] the first. I find it hard to believe that humans are the most advanced thing out there right now, although that might just be pop culture and all the various things in space that we can't explain (Black Knight Satalite) and all the other alien life stuff that goes around.

Part of me wants this to be true however since then humanity could be the one to "uplift" some other race or the be one with the original massive solar empire instead of the opposite way around so often seen in scifi.