Noosphere

I just got involved in translating Wikipedia articles about the concept of "Noosphere"... I was fascinated to discover that there were people in the early 20th century were prophetically predicting  about the internet... Amazing.

Noospher, according to these prophets, is the 3rd cycle of the evolution of Earth. The first phase was the "Geosphere", that is the creation of the physical earth. The second phase is the "biosphere" which is the phase were the physical earth evolved to create living forms. The next phase is the Noosphere when the living form evolves to the level of creating awareness. Awareness being the collective concept of knowledge and consciousness.

The first prophet of the concept was Vernadsky who in the 1920's introduced this concept building on Darwin theory of the survival of the fittest.

The came De Chardin who elaborated the concept and tried to explain it theologically through his Omega Point theory. Obviously, his theory died when the church opposed it although he did his best to show that the Omega Point is the personification of Jesus.

Both ideas suggests that the next level of the evolution of Earth is to create a global awareness... which is the collectiveness and interrelationship of global knowledge!

Isn't this what the Internet is all about? Interesting concept that requires further contemplation.