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noosphere

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noosphere [′nō·ə‚sfir]
(ecology)


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He foresaw some immense consequences, mostly of the positive kind, that the appearance and development of the noosphere entailed for mankind.
To my mind, one of the central insights is Raymond's description of the hacker culture (hacker, not cracker) as a gift culture operating in a Lockean property space he calls the noosphere and how this cultural structure makes it possible for open-source projects to overcome Brook's Law.
 
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