Tagging the Noosphere

One of the many intriguing concepts proposed by Pierre Tielhard de Chardin, a French philosopher and Jesuit priest with polymathic insights (his academic explorations ranged from paleontology to the meaning of the Cosmos) is the “noosphere.” In de Chardin’s vision, the reality of the world encompassed not just the geosphere (inanimate matter) and biosphere (all forms of life), but an ever expanding nimbus of knowledge representing the fusion of the minds and knowledge of all humans….

With the advent of the Internet and the Web, de Chardin’s noosphere seemed to have become real rather than abstract….

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