Mail Art News #22: Saying Yes or Noooo to the Nooscope
postcards for mailing, T. Brown, 4-22-2023 Things go round on the internet. Around 2004 or 2005, in an online art group called the World Artist Network on Myspace, we somehow got to talking about memetics. The exponential growth of online memes began shortly thereafter. And then somewhere around 2011, I learned of the term "noosphere " which is the sphere of human consciousness and mental activity in regard to its influence on the biosphere . And then I heard nothing more about in my own little corner of the world until April 20, 2023, when it showed up along with a new term -- nooscope, in an article titled Earth’s Ultimate War: A Battle to Control the Noosphere. Looking further into the topic, I see articles from 2016 talking about this nooscope, a device for monitoring the noosphere. Some of the articles in the corporate media outlets are predictably dismissive, yet other sites approach it with genuine interest. The website https://nooscope.ai/ discusses the topic from ...