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On 9/27/06, Donald C. O'Shea <dosheaprism.gatech.edu> wrote:

Prof. Floridi describes the infosphere in terms of current concepts and structures. Nearly 50 years ago, a French Jesuit paleontologist, described an entity called the Noosphere. Teilhard expressed it in his usual elliptical manner:

"Understanding, discovery, invention. From the first awakening of his reflective consciousness, Man has been possessed by the demon of discovery; but until a very recent epoch this profound need remained latent, diffused and unorganised in the human mass. In fields embracing every aspect of physical matter, life and thought, the research workers are to be numbered in hundreds of thousands, and they no longer work in isolation but in teams endowed with penetrative powers that it seems nothing can withstand. Research, which until yesterday was a luxury pursuit, is in process of becoming a major, indeed the principal, function of humanity. And our proper biological course, in making use of what we call our leisure, is to devote it to a new kind of work on a higher plane: that is to say, to a general and concerted effort of vision. The Noosphere, in short, is a stupendous thinking machine." From Revue des Questions Scientifiques (Louvain) January 1947, pp. 7-35. Reprinted in ''The Future of Man,'' trans. by Norman Denny, Harper & Row, New York (1969), pp. 179-180.