Written in 1955 by a mystical Catholic priest and noted amateur anthropologist (who also perpetrated a serious anthropological hoax) this is the primeval “cosmic” book.
Teilhard de Chardin provides a metaphysical understanding to the ascending global communications network and the modern expansion of information. He views human culture as the evolutionary advancement from non-life to the “deployment of the noosphere” —Teilhard’s coinage for the materialization of a human thought membrane around the earth. His is the ontogeny of a planetary circuit, now in progress.
