http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXin82A6maM
http://www.matrixmasters.com/spirit/html/2a/2a.html
In 1938, a Jesuit priest wrote a book in which he postulated the existence of "a sphere of thought" enveloping the Earth. ( 2 ) This book, The Phenomenon of Man, wasn't published until the late 1950s, after its author, Teilhard de Chardin, had died. In it, he called this enveloping sphere of thought the noosphere and described it as "a living tissue of consciousness" enclosing the Earth and growing ever more dense. For several years after the book's first English publication in 1959, Teilhard's concept of a thinking membrane surrounding our planet provoked significant controversy in both religious and academic circles. Like many revolutionary ideas, however, the concept of a noosphere was eventually passed over by most mainstream thinkers and largely forgotten. Imagine my surprise then when I discovered that I wasn't the only one who remembered Teilhard's work and had begun thinking about the Internet in terms of the noosphere.