Chardin's Noosphere v Laszlo's Toe by John Luxton

"Some day after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire."
Teilhard de Chardin

When you put together - memes, flocking and universal connectivity, TOEs begin to be discussed. This month in the always excellent Pc Pro magazine Dick Pountain is waxing about the psychosphere. Do I detect that Theories Of Everything are moving into the mainstream?
A visionary in this field was Teilhard de Chardin. He postulated that the biosphere of earth has a layer of synced and connected thought, the Noosphere. Upon crystallization of the Noosphere, a field of global telepathic connectivity will form, and the Omega Point will dawn, ushering in a new paradigm and lifting man to a new level of transcendence.
Maybe I read too much scifi but I like the sound of that…
An Omega Point defined as an approaching singularity of thought, consciousness, or even data is discussed here - #omegapoint.
If the matrix were to become sentient, one would wish for a relationship of empathic connectivity.
Laszlo’s Toe can be found in his book - Science and the Akashic Field by Ervin Laszlo.

John Luxton

Retro tech is calling

Remember this scene from The Man Who Fell to Earth? Well now the whole world is going nano I find I yearn for a wall of monitors like Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie of course) and now everyone is predicting the end of the desk top I can probably fill a whole wall for a few hundred quid. Or maybe I should start stocking up with the Retrobrick (are they serious?)

     So when was the last time you called up a friend or colleague and said, "look it's time we talked about nano technology"? No me neither. But let us be aware or even beware that this stuff is changing our lives so fast that soon there will be no past. I however can remember a time before any of this. Obviously I am therefore marked out as a fossil from a previous era in human development. But let me ask one question - where does all this data come from, oceans of the stuff, that can all no doubt be stored on a pin head? Was it waiting for us to develop the storage and processing so that it could move in.

      And what would happen if a couple of unfriendly solar flares were to send a magnetic pulse our way and turn all those zeros and ones into plain old zeroes?

John Luxton