Summary: Build Home Page to Noosphere as transition from enabling analysis. >
Goal: Shift emphasis from enabling analysis to noosphere, a radical shift consistent with both Anthropocene and Technosphere. Note, especially with Barlow quote below, how this favors the WebWorks construction over the book format.
The term noosphere was coined around 1926 by the Russian Geochemist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky as a contribution to Russian cosmology. Vernadsky deepened the appreciation of a new idea of his time, the biosphere, which Vernadsky had advanced in his 1926 book with that title. The teleology, or end point, of the biosphere was to provide the physical conditions for the ultimate destination of evolution, the transformation of the biosphere into the noosphere. Just as the biosphere transformed the earlier geosphere, the noosphere would transform the biosphere, offering the ultimate destination of humanity. His essential notion is that the Earth provided a cradle for the mind, which fulfilled evolution.
Vennadsky's concept of the noosphere deepened the significance of the
biosphere and opened up the possibilities inherent in what we now call
the Anthropocene, the successor to the Holocene as a geological period
in Earth history.
The Noosphere is a play on the Greek philosophical term, Nous, which refers to mind or spirit. The term was invented by the French philosopher and Jesuit priest Teilhard de Chardin to indicate a stage in human evolution marked by the intensification of human thought as an organizing principle.
Teilhard has probably the most prominence here, but connects to Christ's Second Coming, which must be addressed. Teilhard was stigmatized within the church hierarchy for his later writings. ^
The Internet might be construed as a form of noosphere. Consider the statement, below, of John Perry Barlow, lyricist for the Grateful Dead, Co-Founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and self-described Cognitive Dissident. Use web page on John Perry Barlow and his Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace:
"Governments of the Industrial World," the Declaration began, "you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather."
"Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are based on matter, There is no matter here."
Use Paul Hawken video, Blessed Unrest, and Portland University speech to portray Paul Hawken at noosphere visionary.