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| + | Source: [http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/krippendorff/ Klaus Krippendorff’s A Dictionary of Cybernetics] (unpublished, mentioned in the [http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/NOOSPHERE.html Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems]. | ||
Revision as of 19:47, 16 June 2011
Definition
All media and technology can be re-envisioned through this perspective. Writing allowed us to free our memory and direct the brain to other tasks. Computers have allowed us to take this process to an entirely new level by allowing us to store information in a medium that can be accessed from anywhere. The internet combined with search platforms could be considered the collective cognition of our species, sometimes called the "noosphere".[1]
Examples
Google. Twitter.
References
“A term modeled after "atmosphere" and biosphere" signifying (a) the space occupied by the totality of information and human knowledge collectively available to man and (b) the processes operating in this space, e.g., combinatorial mating, classification, reproduction, simplification, selective decay”.
Source: Klaus Krippendorff’s A Dictionary of Cybernetics (unpublished, mentioned in the Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems.
