clipped from theoblogical.org

The most important initial evolutionary leap of the convergence
stage is the formation of what Chardin termed “the Noosphere.”
It’s formation, as Michael Murray explains, begins with “a global
network of trade, communications, accumulation, and exchange of knowledge,
cooperative research …all go into the weaving of the material support
for a sphere of collective thought. In the field of science alone, no individual
knows more than a tiny fraction of the sum of scientific knowledge, and
each scientist is dependent not only for his education but for all his
subsequent work on the traditions and resources which are the collective
possession of an entire international society composed of the living and
the dead. Just as Earth once covered itself with a film of interdependent
living organisms which we call the biosphere, so mankind’s combined achievements
are forming a global network of collective mind.”