10Through space and time
We must enlarge our appreciation to encompass the formation taking place before our eyes … of a particular biological entity that has never existed on earth – the growth, outside and above the biosphere, of an added planetary layer, an envelope of thinking substance, to which for the sake of convenience and symmetry, I have given the name of the Noosphere.
(de Chardin, The Future of Man, 1964: 131)
Our human communicating world is not just an abstract matter. Human creatures live in space and in time, dimensions which set both the opportunities and the limits for their interconnections. They move to many places, live scattered across the globe, are born, change, mature, die.
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