The Godzilla on the block is the derivatives bubble, perhaps over a quadrillion dollars (!). Perhaps the American taxpayers will pony up $700 trillion to make us all confident about those debts?
In the original theory of Vladimir Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition fundamentally transforms the biosphere.
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