Noo Sphere

Coined by PierreTeilhardDeChardin. He wrote of this time as a huge flowering (NooGenesis?) of the noosphere. He distinguished it from the GeoSphere? (non-living things) and the BioSphere? (living things).

An attempt to measure global consciousness directly: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

See http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/mar/cunning.html