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.
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