Word of the Day Sunday, July 06, 2014 noosphere \ NOH-uh-sfeer \ , noun; 1. Ecology . the biosphere including and modified by such human activities as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, urbanization, and industrialization. Quotes: He believed that just as life had covered the Earth to form the biosphere, so mankind — thinking life — would eventually encompass life to form a higher layer, a cogitative layer he called the noosphere . -- Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, The Light of Other Days , 2000 What you saw, that figure holding that large ancient volume, that was an entity of the noosphere , from the Seas of Knowledge, who come down here all the way from Sumerian times. -- Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny, Deus Irae , 1976 Origin: Noosphere was coined by a group of French philosophers, including Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Édouard Le Roy, in the 1920s. The word is a combination of the Greek word nóo meaning mind and the French word sphère referring to a space or environment.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 09:45:51 +0000
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